Love

Justification, Propitiation, Declaration

Romans 3:24-26

… This is My commandment, That you love one another, as Ihave loved you. Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for …

God's Remembrance of His Covenant

Psalm 106:44

… It is written, "As many as I love I rebuke and chasten." And again, "Every branch in me that bears fruit, He purges it, that it may bring …

Priest and Victim

Hebrews 7:27

… The axles of my human medium of conveyance are ready to snap when freighted with such a load of Infinite Love and Wisdom as comes to us in …

Twelve Covenant Mercies

Isaiah 55:3

… He cries, "Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep Your Law." And this is the Covenant blessing—God makes men to love His Commandments …

Oct. 19 — REGULATED CHASTISEMENT

Jer. 30:11

… It is in love that our heavenly Father uses the rod upon His children. Yet see, the correction is "in measure": He gives us love without measure, but …

Ruth's Reward—or, Cheer for Converts

Ruth 2:12

… You who have long been Believers in the Lord Jesus, who have grown rich in experience, who know the love and faithfulness of our Covenant God and who …

Spring

Isaiah 61:11

… Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter are God's four Evangelists, bringing each one a different version of the self-same Gospel of Divine love. Spring has its own …

Nov. 17 — GOD NEVER FORSAKES

Ps. 94:14

… Man has his cast-offs, but God has none; for His choice is unchangeable, and His love is everlasting. None can find out a single person whom God …

'The True Sayings of God'

Revelation 19:9

… Notice how the Psalmist here twice singles out the precepts rather than the promises—even hypocrites may love the promises, but only sincere Believers love the precepts. The …

Adorning the Gospel

Titus 2:10

… It is all mercy, it is all love, there is no love like it—"God so loved the world." Well, then, adorn the Gospel with the suitable jewels …

Our Lord's Substitution

1 Peter 2:24

… He seems to again hear that thrice-repeated question ringing in his ears, "Simon, son of Jonas, do you love Me?" and he can still answer, "Lord, You …

Overwhelming Obligations

Psalm 116:12

… But where are the depths of love and gratitude that can meet its exuberant demands? You will perhaps remember an incident in the life of a famous soldier …

The Parent's and Pastor's Joy

… Beloved, if you love your pastor, if you love the Bible, if you love the Gospel, if you love Christ, if you love God—be a holy people …

The Happy Duty of Daily Praise

Psalm 114:1

… The waves of love as well as of time have washed us up upon the shore of today and the beach is strewn with love! Here I find …

Mourning For Christ

Zechariah 12:10

… And how little flame has there been! How little love for God—how little love for perishing sinners! How little love, even, for Christ's own people! How …

"Peace in Believing"

Romans 15:13

… There is no separating these golden links of love and mercy! That foreknowledge, to which all future things are open and present, begins the deed of love. Predestination …

Great Difference

Malachi 2:17

… Their mutual expressions of love would increase love! As when we lay live coals together, they burn the better, so loving intercommunications increase the heat of affection till …

Encourage Your Minister!

Deuteronomy 1:38

… In love He will esteem the purchase equal to the price He paid. The love and the price are both infinite. As He looks upon any one of …

Mourning at the Cross

Zechariah 12:10

… Then the same Grace affects the heart so that the man beholds the Infinite graciousness and eternal love of Christ and then begins to loathe himself to think …

Our Own Dear Shepherd

John 10:14

… They say of human love that it is blind, but Christ's love has many eyes and all its eyes are open—and yet He still loves us …

The Blood of the Covenant

Hebrews 13:20-21

… Angels cannot love so much as we shall, for they have never tasted redeeming grace and dying love. This high devotion is the Lord’s aim. He did …

Healing and Pardon

Isaiah 33:24

… Forgiveness begets gratitude, gratitude creates love and love brings forth holiness. She that washed the Savior's feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her …

The Nature and Design of Divine Chastening

1 Corinthians 11:32

… If He did not love you very much, He would not be so jealous of your love. For I take it," he said, "this is the reason why …

Disobedience to the Gospel

Romans 10:16

… Oh, what wondrous love is displayed by God in the Gospel—the love which made Him give up His only-begotten Son to bleed and die—the love …

April 9 — THE BIBLE'S SUPREME PLACE

Ps. 119:165

April 9 THE BIBLE'S SUPREME PLACE "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them" Ps. 119:165 Yes, a true love for …

'Nunc Dimittis'

Luke 2:29-30

… It is the very instinct of love to draw us nearer to the person whom we love; and, when love towards God pervades the soul, then the spirit …

Under The Apple Tree

… Can I say I love Him? So I do, but I hardly dare call it love, for His love overshadows it. Did I suppose that I served Him …

The Trial of Your Faith

1 Peter 1:7

… Whatever it may be with us poor creatures, it is always so with Jesus, that His love goes with His jealousy and His jealousy with His love. Sometimes …

The Comforter

John 14:26

… Oh! there is a voice in love, it speaks a language which is its own; it has an idiom and a brogue which none can mimic; wisdom cannot …

Jan. 8 — PURITY OF HEART AND LIFE

Matt. 5:8

… if we love evil, we cannot understand that which is good. If the heart is foul, the eye will be dim. How can those men see a holy …

And Why Not?

Luke 17:22

… But by-and-by the love of many waxed cold and their first zeal declined. Persecution increased in its intensity and the timid shrank away from them. Evildoers …

Oct. 12 — MARK OF COVENANT GRACE

Deut. 30:6

… 12 MARK OF COVENANT GRACE "And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all …

God—All in All

Job 34:29

… Send us love to each other once more." In a Church, love is the essential element of happiness, and if any of you have violated it, or sinned …

The Final Separation

Matthew 25:32

… If the sun of Christ's love has shone into your heart, you will love others and you will show your love to others by desiring to do …

The Honored Guest

Luke 19:6

… Jesus Christ comes to save— comes with pardon in His hands, with messages of love, with tokens of favor—yet most men bar the doors of their hearts …

Amazing Grace

Isaiah 57:18

… Now, I have been, not only for the love of it, but because of my calling of preaching it, a constant reader of Holy Scripture and yet after …

David Dancing Before the Ark Because of His Election

2 Samuel 6:20-22

… As many of the choicest words of our Lord Jesus were brought out of Him by the Pharisees, so one of the choicest statements of electing love that …

June 14 — HE CONSTANTLY ABIDES

I Sam. 12:22

… He chose them for His love, and He loves them for His choice. His own good pleasure is the source of their election, and His election is the …

Joy, a Duty

Philippians 4:4

… Shall the wife love the jewels that her husband gave her more than she loves him who gave them to her? That were an evil love, or no …

God in Nature and in Revelation

Psalm 19:7-9

… So is it with the Gospel and with the love of Christ. Where some of you are tonight, you may imagine that you are hidden from the heat …