GOD'S LOVE IS NOT MAN'S LOVE. He loved the unlovely, the poor, oppressed, rebellious, stiff-necked, hard-hearted, unworthy creatures. Just such are His people by nature now, and such are we. Yet He loves us, pities us, and chooses us from among others. For us He spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all; and with Him He will freely give us all things. Though He has not yet all His people with Him, yet He has Jesus sitting at His right hand as their representative; the express image and exact likeness of His elect. All the rays of God's love centre in Jesus, who is the Head of His body the church. All the streams of delight flow from Him to every believer on earth. As He loves Jesus so He loves us, for Christ and we are one. What is done to us, is done to Him; and what is bestowed upon Him, as our mediator is bestowed upon us His people. O glorious mystery of infinite and eternal love! Direct my heart into this love of God!

For Meditation:
O love of incomp'rable kind!
That leaves all thought so far behind;
Where length, and breadth, and depth, and height,
Are lost to my astonish'd sight:
Lord shed abroad that love of Thine
In this poor sinful heart of mine.