THE LOVE OF THE LORD!

Whenever we are feeling down and a little depressed we should look back through all our experiences, and think of the way whereby, the Lord God has led us in the wilderness, and how He has fed and clothed us every day… We should remember how He has borne with all of our sinful ways and ill manners… How He has put up with all of our murmurings, and complaining and all our longings after the flesh… How He has opened the rock to supply us, and fed us with manna that came down from heaven…

Think of how His grace has been sufficient for us in all thy troubles—How His blood has been a pardon in all our sins—how His rod and His staff have comforted us no matter where we have found ourselves…

When we have therefore, 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 us and pardoned us, shall never cease to love and pardon…

We must remember, no matter what we are going through, that He is not only the God of the past and of the future, he is also the God of the present…

He is Alpha, and He shall be Omega also: He is the beginning and the end… He is first, and He shall be last… Therefore, think about this, when thou shalt pass through the valley of the shadow of death, thou needest fear no evil, for He is with thee…

When we shall stand in the cold floods of Jordan, we need not fear…for death shall not separate us from His love…and when we shall come into the mysteries of eternity we need 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, listen saint or whoever you might be, is not your love refreshed? Does not this make you love Jesus?

Does not a flight through never-ending plains of the atmosphere of love inflame your heart and compel you 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…

Laus Deo

Posted by Minister Robert N. Graves, Sr.
Fisherman for Christ
Adapted from Spurgeons Morning and Evening Devotionals