Love

Shiloh

Genesis 49:10

… A pet name is often the product of peculiar love. Tender affection takes this kindly turn. Those whom we fondly regard, we familiarly call by some other name …

Trial by the Word

Psalm 105:19

… We have none of us so much faith as we impute to ourselves, nor so much patience, or humility, or meekness, or love to God, or love to …

Ripe Fruit

Micah 7:1

… The love of his espousals, his first love, his first zeal, all make the newborn Believer comely. Can anything be more delightful than our first graces? Even God …

Recruits for the King

1 Samuel 22:1-2

… As many of us as have given our hearts to Him, rely upon Him and love Him, are really and truly His brethren and of His Father's …

The Story of a Runaway Slave

… Yet, mark you, the Lord looked out of Heaven with an eye of love and set that eye on Onesimus! Were there no free men, that God must …

Humility, the Friend of Prayer

Genesis 32:10

… And, having reached that, he has a firm foothold, for he pleads the absolute sovereignty of Divine Grace and the boundless love of the Divine heart as substantial …

God's Advocates Breaking Silence

Job 36:2

… Is it necessary I should? Do you love the Lord? Do you really love Him? "Simon, son of Jonas, do you love Me?" Mary, Hannah, do you, indeed …

Open Heart For The Great Savior

John 1:12

… They who trust Christ, love Christ— "Sure Imust love, or are my ears Still deaf, nor will my passions move? Lord! Melt this flinty heart to tears— This …

Christ Manifesting Himself to His People

John 14:22

… Our Lord went on to say—“If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him …

Peace—a Fact and a Feeling

Romans 5:1

… We can say, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You."— "Yes, I love You and adore, Oh for Grace to love You more." Of …

Our Leader Through the Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… There is a poverty which the poets love—it dwells in a thatched cottage whose porch is overgrown with woodbine. Perhaps if the poets had rheumatism through the …

Mediation of Moses

Exodus 32:14

… He knows what He does and I must leave the matter there." But mighty love dares to cast itself upon its face before even an angry God! It …

The First Christmas Carol

Luke 2:14

… Do you not love the angels? Ye will not bow before them, and there ye are right; but will ye not love them? Doth it not make one …

Refusing to Be Comforted

Psalm 77:2

… But how wicked this refusal is! What a wrong you do to our honest love! What a wrong you do to the matchless love of God! Do you …

The Sluggard's Reproof

Proverbs 20:4

… Where there's a will, there's a way, and if the Holy Spirit has made you love religion and the things of God, you will find time …

Servus Servorum

Luke 22:27

… Our Lord was among men as One that serves because He had such immeasurable love. Love is always happiest when it can do something for its object. It …

"All Hail!"

Matthew 28:9

… I will not dare to compare, for a moment, the love which exists between you and Christ, for what have you ever done for Him compared with what …

The Savior's Precious Blood

1 Peter 1:19

… His moral government remains untarnished in all the majesty of its purity, and yet He puts out the right hand of reconciliation and love to all who approach …

The Glorious Hereafter and Ourselves

2 Corinthians 5:5

… Let us love the ordinances because He puts life and power into them. Let us love His indwelling, and never grieve Him lest He hide His face from …

The Sweet Uses of Adversity

Job 10:2

… Ah, surely, my brethren, it needs but little logic to understand that this not a contention of anger, but a contention of love. It needs, methinks, but a …

Always and for All Things

Ephesians 5:20

… To sympathize with suffering saints for love of Jesus is to bless God. And to love the cause of God and to defend it for Christ's sake …

Christopathy

Isaiah 53:5

… By these same wounds of Christ our heart is healed of its love of sin. It was once in love with sin, but now it hates all iniquity …

Lessons From Christ's Baptism

Matthew 3:16

… Breathe the prayer— "Come, Holy Spirit heavenly Dove, With all Your quickening powers, Come, shed abroad a Savor's love, And that shall kindle ours"— and there is …

A Golden Prayer

John 12:28

… But if you will love for love's sake. If you will seek to be Christ-like. If you will lay yourselves out to glorify God, to increase …

The Best Donation

2 Corinthians 8:5

… No, let Him take all."— "Savior! Your dying love You gave me— Nor should I anything withhold, My Lord, from You. In love my soul would bow, My …

Jesus Angry with Hard Hearts

Mark 3:5

… His was not anger which desired evil to its object; no touch of malevolence was in it; it was simply love on fire, love burning with indignation against …

How To Meet the Doctrine of Election

Matthew 15:24

… We know our Lord too well to suspect Him of a lack of love. He is not sporting with a wounded bird. He is in no fit of …

A Young Man's Vision

Acts 2:17

… We feel the fire of sacred love burning in our hearts, and as we come together and begin to talk of the difficulties before us in a fraternal …

The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

… I shall not hold up the love of our neighbor as a condition of salvation, but as a fruit of it. I shall not speak of obedience to …

Obeying Christ's Orders

John 2:5

… When you are told to believe in Him, believe in Him up to the brim! When you are told to love Him, love Him up to the brim …

The Young Soul-Winner at Waterbeach

… I love the people of God; I love the house of God; and I love to worship God.” “Well,” I said, “you are an odd sort of hypocrite …

Marah Better Than Elim

Exodus 15:22-26

… When we are thinking of how much we love God, it might be more profitable to consider how very little we really love Him, after all. And see …

The Wandering Bird

Proverbs 27:8

… The good old ministers used to occupy one charge for 50 years—and the people used to love them and to hold fast to them. They did not …

The Cause and Effect of Heart Trouble

John 14:27

… But every week something or other is sent to her from her old home, 'with father's love,' and by these continued tokens of love, the daughter probably …

Reasons for Turning to the Lord

Hosea 6:1

… The loving God, compelled by love, itself, frowns at sin. He threatens, He denounces. His justice and holiness lead Him to use rough words towards His erring creatures …

God's People—or Not God's People

Hosea 2:23

… Well, like as a father loves the voice of his child, so does our heavenly Father love the voices of His beloved whom He calls His people—and …

The Prophet Like Unto Moses

Deuteronomy 18:15-19

… And when He bids us come to Him, can we refuse to hear? So meek is the Mediator that He is Love itself, Incarnate Love! He is so …

Witnessing at the Cross

Luke 23:39-43

… But the power and love of God are, if anything, even more conspicuous when, like a sheep surrounded by wolves, or a spark in the midst of the …

Evidence of the New Life

… Let every tried and troubled Christian, who, nevertheless, does taste that the Lord is good, take consolation from this. “The upright love thee.” “ A few Names even in …

An Appeal to Children of Godly Parents

Proverbs 6:20-23

… Show that you love these things by binding them upon your heart. The heart is the vital point—let godliness lie there—love the things of God. If …