Theme: God's Love
He makes rich provision for her wants, pays all her debts, allows her to assume his name, and to share in all his wealth.
He sometimes chides, but it is always in the tenderest manner, with the kindest intentions: it is ‘my love’ even then.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Ah, my child, while you slept God watched over you with His boundless Love, and breathed thoughts of peace into your heart!
I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
I loved without considering a motive or reason for loving. Nothing passed in my head, but much in the innermost recesses of my soul.
For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
They shall eat and drink abundantly, and swim in the ocean of love, and be eternally swallowed up in the infinitely bright, and infinitely mild and sweet beams of divine love.
He that thus loves the Lord his God, his spirit continually rejoiceth in God his Saviour.
Never permit your soul to be sad and live in bitterness of spirit or scrupulous fear, since He who loved it and died to give it life is so good, so sweet, so amiable.
Thou dost demand our love, holy Lord Christ, And batest nothing of thy modesty; Thou know’st no other way to bliss the highest Than loving thee, the loving, perfectly.
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
His love, my dear sisters, is incomprehensible; his love passeth all other loves: The love of the Lord Jesus is first, without beginning; his love is free without any motive; his love is great without any measure; his love is constant without any change, and his love is everlasting.
He rules by the force of love and the energy of goodness.
In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you, says Yahweh your Redeemer.
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
As a mother puts out her finger to her little child and woos it to walk by saying, ‘Come,’ even so does Jesus.
May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and into the perseverance of Christ.
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
Love Him more than yourself, and his glory more than your life.
God’s nature is to be always giving.
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