Love

The Unknown Ways of Love

John 13:7

… You will feel both His love and His authority and acknowledge the power of both His goodness and His greatness. His smile shall not make you presume, nor …

The Way To Honor

Proverbs 27:18

… We are affected by the love of family, the love of friendship, the love of country—but there is a love that is higher than all these—a …

Retrospect—"The Lord Has Blessed"

Joshua 17:14

… A peculiarity of love colors each gracious life. As God is truly everywhere, yet specially in certain places, so does He manifest His love to all His people …

Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 1:23-24

… Ah! it is a beautiful plain place; you love it, you love its ordinances, you love its exterior; and if any one spoke against the place, how vexed …

Lukewarmness

Revelation 3:15

… I love the Word of God because, while it is a God-like Book, it is also a man-like Book. In all the Glory of His Infinite …

The Bond of the Covenant

Ezekiel 20:34-38

… I see within this threatening black cloud, a bright light of infinite mercy, a silver lining of love! A golden thread of Grace runs through these threatening verses …

Sounding Out the Word of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 1:8

… Kindly look at the third verse—"Remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope." The three Divine sisters—Faith, Hope, Love …

Our Lord in the Valley of Humiliation

Philippians 2:8

… Love one another—"be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind." 3. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory. "Nothing." Never …

Election

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

… We love not to see it racked, but we love it even when racked, because we can discern what its proper proportions ought to have been if it …

A Proclamation from the King of Kings

Jeremiah 3:12

… But, with God, it is His nature to forgive—He is Love—and mercy is a drop from the honeycomb of love. God must be just, but to …

The Very Friend You Need

Luke 7:34

… Tell me that you love me and it will come to very little if you only love me in words. But if there is true love, there will …

A Call to the Depressed

Isaiah 52:2

… Perhaps in your happier days you grieved the Holy Spirit just when you were most joyful and happy in His love. It may be that you grew worldly …

Repentance after Conversion

Psalm 51:17

… More than that—and this is a very tender point—let us grieve that we have sinned against a Savior's love. I like that verse we sang …

Flesh And Spirit—A Riddle

Psalm 73:22-25

… There is nothing that makes one love Christ, I think, so much as a sense of His love balanced with a sense of our unworthiness of it. It …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage (Continued)

… The Lord God Almighty bless you now and for ever!” “I have been thinking over my strange history, and musing on eternal love’s great river-head from …

Christ Put On

Romans 13:14

… Put on love—what a golden belt! Are we all putting on love? We have been baptized into Christ and we profess to have put on Christ—but …

Evening, March 25

Jn 3:13

… dear token of thy grace, thy humility, thy love. “Oh see how Jesus trusts himself Unto our childish love, As though by his free ways with us Our …

Now, and Then

1 Corinthians 13:12

… Learn to esteem this sacred instinct of love beyond all the choicest endowments. However poor you may be in talents, let the love of Christ dwell in you …

God's Mercy Going Before

Psalm 59:10

… Therefore I love Him. Can you imagine a better reason for love? 2. Because He has inclined His ear unto me, therefore will I call upon Him as …

Job's Regret and Our Own

Job 29:2

… We could not tell the love passages that there are between believers and their Lord; even when they are set to such sweet music as the Song of …

Close

… It makes the heart grow warm with grateful love, and thus it creates a feeling in the soul which is infinitely more acceptable to God than anything that …

The Great Birthday and Our Coming of Age

Galatians 4:3-6

… I think one day with Christ was worth a half century with Moses! When Jesus came, Believers began to hear of the Father and His love, of His …

Crowning Blessings Ascribed to God

Psalm 65:11

… Had we to speak of politics or philosophy, we had run dry long ago—but when we have to preach the Savior's everlasting love—the theme is …

Angelic Interest in the Gospel

1 Peter 1:12

… Those pure spirits love as surely as they live, and not only do they love their God, and love one another, but they also love us who were …

Evening, February 2

1Ch 4:22

… Everlasting love went with the choice, for it was not a bare act of divine will by which we were set apart, but the divine affections were concerned …

Evening, October 6

Nu 12:1

… Each believer must, when filled with a sense of Jesus’ love, be also overwhelmed with astonishment that such love should be lavished on an object so utterly unworthy …

Morning, November 16

La 3:24

… Not his grace merely, nor his love, nor his covenant, but Jehovah himself. He has chosen us for his portion, and we have chosen him for ours. It …

The Magnanimity of God

Job 36:5

… My love will always be chill, my character will be imperfect." Well, beloved Friend, then you will owe more to His love than others! And more to His …

Unabated Affection between Pastor and People

… By the splendour of redeeming love, I charge each believer to confess his Lord, and live wholly to Him. "Yours for Christ's sake, Not very long after …

Morning, January 26

Mt 6:26

… Father!—Here is honour and love. How great is a Father’s love to his children! That which friendship cannot do, and mere benevolence will not attempt, a …

Evening, January 7

Song 4:12

… My spouse , nearest and dearest, united to me by the tenderest bands of love; my sweet companion, part of my own self. My sister , by my Incarnation, which …

Evening, October 8

Jude 20

… Prayer should be perfumed with love, saturated with love—love to our fellow saints, and love to Christ. Moreover, it must be a prayer full of faith . A …

Evening, October 17

Is 40:11

… How gently did he gather me to himself, to his truth, to his blood, to his love, to his church! With what effectual grace did he compel me …

Evening, November 5

Ps 100:4

… High thoughts of him increase our love. Love and esteem go together. Therefore, believer, think much of your Master’s excellencies. Study him in his primeval glory, before …

Evening, May 23

Is 43:24

… Never may we grow niggardly towards thee, and from this hour never may we hear thee complain of us again for withholding the gifts of our love. We …

Morning, June 7

Ps 97:10

Morning, June 7 Go To Evening Reading “Ye that love the Lord hate evil.” Psalm 97:10 Thou hast good reason to “hate evil,” for only consider what …

Early Pastoral Epistles

… Think not that my jealousy bodes a suspicion, but rather that it betokens my love. ' We are not of them who draw back unto perdition ; but of them …

Early And Late

Matthew 20:1

… How can I bless those who do not love the Lord Jesus Christ? 'If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha.' " And …

The Saviour's Many Crowns

Revelation 19:12

… His hands were pierced; his soul was rent in agony, and looking down on the Hard-heart, Jesus said, “Hard-heart, wilt thou not love me? I love …

Honey From A Lion

Romans 5:15

… O matchless ministry of love, when the Lord from Heaven came into the world and took upon Himself our nature and became in all respects human! And being …