Unfailing Love

"…Marvellous lovingkindness…"   Psalm 17:7

When we give our hearts with our offerings, we give well, but we must often plead to a failure in this respect. Not so our Master and our Lord. His favours are always performed with the love of His heart. He does not send to us the cold meat and the broken pieces from the table of His luxury, but He dips our portion in His own dish, and seasons our provisions with the spices of His fragrant affections. When He puts the golden coins of His grace into our palms, He accompanies the gift with such a warm pressure of our hand, that the manner of His giving is as precious as the boon itself. When He comes into our houses upon His errands of kindness, and He does not act as some austere visitors do in the poor man’s cottage, but He sits by our side, not despising our poverty, nor blaming our weakness. Beloved, with what smiles does He speak! What golden sentences drop from His gracious lips! What embraces of affection does He bestow upon us! If He had but given us only pennies, the way of His giving would have made them as gold; but as it is, the costly gifts are set in a golden basket by His pleasant carriage. It is impossible to doubt the sincerity of His charity, for there is a bleeding heart stamped upon the face of all His benefactions. He gives generously and without finding fault . (James 1:5) He gives no hint that we are burdensome to Him; not one cold look for His poor pensioners; instead He rejoices in His mercy, and presses us to His bosom while He is pouring out His life for us. There is a fragrance in His spikenard which nothing but His heart could produce; there is a sweetness in His honey-comb which could not be in it unless the very essence of His soul’s affection had been mingled with it. Oh! the rare communion which such singular heartiness provides! May we continually taste and know the blessedness of it! 

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Morning, C.H. Spurgeon