Love

Intercessory Prayer

Job 42:10

… Thou lovest not the saints, thou lovest not thy fellow men, how canst thou love me whom thou hast not seen, and how shall I love thee and …

Our Lord's Entrance Within the Veil

Hebrews 9:12

… Jesus did not die to make God love sinners for He always did love them. But that His love might be exercised in consistency with holiness it was …

The Pierced One Pierces The Heart

Zechariah 12:10

… Ah, Brethren, the love of Jesus must have been a strange love, indeed. We have heard of men who out of love to some poor countrywoman have left …

Acceptable Service

Hebrews 12:28

… Every hymn that comes up from saints made perfect is but an echo of almighty love! They love Him because He first loved them. They are first receivers …

The Recorders

1 Chronicles 16:4

… They have not the power to see how much love there is in them and how little they deserve them and, therefore, they are not impressed by them …

The Glorious Master and the Swooning Disciple

Revelation 1:17-18

… O man, greatly beloved, be not so overwhelmed with the greatness of thy Lord as to forget his love, his great love, his familiar love, which at this …

Ziklag—or David Encouraging Himself In God

1 Samuel 30:6

… Standing amidst those ruins, he would say, "Yet the Lord does love me and I love Him. Though I have wandered, yet my heart cannot rest without Him …

Soul-satisfying Bread

John 6:35

… The heart, also, has its hunger, for almost unknown to itself it cries, "O that someone loved me and that I could love someone whose love would fill …

Asleep and Yet Awake—a Riddle

Solomon 5:2

… Give me Grace to love Jesus better and to be more like He is. Poor as I am, I long to be enriched by Your love and mercy …

'The Garment of Praise'

Isaiah 61:3

… Yes, and when I have even seenthat love in the bleeding body of His dear Son, I have been unbelieving and have done despite even to boundless Grace …

Saving Knowledge

John 4:10

… At the heels of that would come holy love to Him. And holy love would prompt us to serve! Service would be followed by increasing strength and increasing …

God's Word Not to Be Refused

Hebrews 12:25

… No heart could ever have contrived or invented this as a piece of imagination—the love, the story of the redeeming love of God in Christ Jesus! If …

Jesus Knew What He Would Do

John 6:6

… He had too much reverence and too much love for Jesus for that—he failed in his faith—but he did not fail in his love. It will …

The Sieve

Amos 9:9

… It is all sent in love. Love is in every loss, every bereavement, every bodily pain. Love, love, love—nothing but love, even when the cup is bitterest …

Men Without Heart, Sight, or Hearing

Deuteronomy 29:4

… God has given them abundance of earthly possessions, but He has not given them eyes to see His bounty, nor ears to hear His voice of love, nor …

'Magnificat'

Judges 5:12

… Sing, my understanding, sing aloud of that matchless wisdom which contrived—of that divine love which planned, and of that eternal grace which carried out the scheme of …

The Word of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18

… Oh that I knew how to be quite still and let the Cross, itself, speak out with its matchless tones of mercy and majesty, love and blood, death …

Hopeful, Yet Doubtful

Matthew 8:19

… O Brothers and Sisters, why do we love Christ, if we do love Him? Why, because, though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor! What …

Concerning Saints

Psalm 145:10

… Of course these good men and their churches must be absolutely perfect—a race of saints! Distance lends enchantment to the view! For my part, I love to …

Storming the Battlements

Jeremiah 5:10

… The Scripture telleth us, that a man cannot love his wife too much: “Husbands love you wives, as Christ also loves the Church”—and that is infinitely. Yet …

The Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ

2 Corinthians 4:6

… We love Him and we also love God. And we perceive that these two are One and the more we love truth and holiness, and love, which are …

The Triumph of Grace

It is one of the greatest of wonders that all men do not love Christ. Nothing manifests more clearly the utter corruption of our race than the fact …

"Speak, Lord!"

1 Samuel 3:10

… Do you seem to be very insignificant? Yet you can hardly be more so than was this child of Hannah's love! Have you many troubles? Yet you …

Prayer to God in Trouble an Acceptable Sacrifice

Psalm 50:15

… This is a sure way of proving that ours is not a hireling love which abides while it gets its price and disappears when wages fail. God forbid …

Zion's Prosperity

Psalm 102:13

… We love to see people throng to hear God's Word and to hear assembled multitudes shout aloud the praises of Jehovah. But when we witness these things …

Alas! I Can Do Nothing!

… How can you continue to be hard-hearted when you know that out of supreme love "Christ died for the ungodly"? Let me persuade you to reason with …

Loving Persuasion

Acts 28:23

… He loves with a supreme love—shall we not love Him who first loved us? He died! Oh, by His agony and bloody sweat, by His Cross and …

Christ Glorified

Isaiah 55:5

… Begin with that which has no beginning, namely, everlasting love, and we find that we are chosen in Christ Jesus from before the foundation of the world. The …

The Beginning, Increase, and End of the Divine Life

Job 8:7

… I hope sometimes I have a little love, but it is such a beginning, such a mere spark, that I cannot think it is the love which God …

The Hope That Purifies

1 John 3:3

… The basis of all is Divine Love—for observe, the chapter begins—"Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called …

The Objective of Christ's Death

Galatians 1:4

… We are to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul, strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. We are to love even our …

The Winnowing Fan

Hebrews 12:14

… There should be no quarrels within the sacred enclosure which the electing love of God has made. You are one in the Divine choice, you are one by …

A Hard Case

Job 33:14-18

… There is not only the patience of love, but there is also the Omnipotence of love. God does not merely attempt to make men hear, but He succeeds …

The Power Of Prayer And The Pleasure Of Praise

2 Corinthians 1:11

… in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us." Because our God is, "the same yesterday, today and forever," His love in time past is an infallible …

Psalm 8

Psalm 8

… that is, that he should espouse this loathsome thing to himself, that he would be a husband to it; this is love unfathomable, love inconceivable, self-principle love …

Man'S Weakness—God'S Anointing

2 Samuel 3:39

… If God can change, if His purpose can fail, if His love can be taken away from one on whom it was ever set, I am not a …

Something Worth Seeking

Matthew 6:33

… If you love Me, keep My Commandments. Obedience is the truest proof of love. Some, out of supposed love to Christ, have attempted or committed acts of fanaticism …

The Approachableness of Jesus

Luke 15:1

… His love shall overcome the nauseating offensiveness of your iniquity, for he is able and willing to save such as you are. I might mention many other of …

'Let Us Pray'

Psalm 73:23

… He sees on the throne, not simply goodness, but his Father’s goodness, not merely love, but love which has from all eternity been set upon him; love …

The Saint One With His Savior

1 Corinthians 6:17

… Just as Jesus has set all His love on them, so they come to set all their love on Him, and they can say with the Apostle, "For …