Morning, February 4
Go To Evening Reading
“The love of the Lord.”
Hosea 3:1
Believer, look back through all thine experience, and think of the way whereby the Lord
thy God has led thee in the wilderness, and how he hath fed and clothed
thee every day—how he hath borne with thine ill manners—how he hath put up with all thy murmurings, and all thy longings after
the flesh-pots of Egypt—how he has opened the rock to supply thee, and fed thee with manna
that came down from heaven. Think of how his grace has been sufficient
for thee in all thy troubles—how his blood has been a pardon to thee in all thy sins—how his rod and his staff have comforted thee. When thou hast thus
looked back upon the love of the Lord, then let faith survey his love
in the future , for remember that Christ’s covenant and blood have something more in them than the past . He who has loved thee and pardoned thee, shall never cease to love
and pardon. He is Alpha, and he shall be Omega also: he is first,
and he shall be last . Therefore, bethink thee, when thou shalt pass through the valley
of the shadow of death, thou needest fear no evil, for he is with
thee. When thou shalt stand in the cold floods of Jordan, thou needest
not fear, for death cannot separate thee from his love; and when thou
shalt come into the mysteries of eternity thou needest not tremble,
“For I am persuaded, that neither death; nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate
us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Now, soul, is not thy love refreshed? Does not this make thee love
Jesus? Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of
love inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord
thy God? Surely as we meditate on “the love of the Lord,” our hearts burn within us, and we long to love him more.