The love of the Lord

.... just like the love of the Lord for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans."   Hosea 3:1

Believer, look back through all our experience, and think of the way whereby the Lord our God has led us in the wilderness, and how he has fed and clothed us every day—how he has borne with our ill manners—how he has put up with all our murmurings, and all our longings after the flesh-pots of Egypt—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 our troubles—how his blood has been a pardon to us in all our sins—how his rod and his staff have comforted us. When we have thus 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. He is Alpha, and he shall be Omega also: he is first, and he shall be last. Therefore, bethink, when you shall pass through the valley of the shadow of death, you will fear no evil, for he is with me. [Psa.23:4]  When we shall stand in the cold floods of Jordan, we will not fear, for death cannot separate us from his love; and when we shall come into the mysteries of eternity we will 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 created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” [Rom.8:38-39]  Now, soul, is not our love refreshed? Does not this make us love Jesus? Do not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame our hearts and compel us to delight ourself in the Lord our God? Surely as we meditate on “the love of the Lord,” our hearts burn within us, and we long to love him more.  Hallelujah, God bless