"BLESSED BE THE LORD FOR THOU ART MY ROCK." This was David's testimony and ours as well. Our God has revealed Himself as the source, centre, and end of everything lovely. In Jesus He appears as the fairest among ten thousand, and the altogether lovely one. The wealth of the universe is His. He is worthy of our highest love. He is all we could wish for or desire. To possess Him is to be made rich for eternity. To have Him on our side is to be safe forever. But you may ask, What is His mind towards us? Emphatically, "grace." We have found favour in His eyes. He is the friend of penitent sinners. He loves us with an infinite love. Do you doubt it? Read His word. Look at Calvary. Ask His people: prove for yourselves. See what He has already done for us. Have we a being? He gave it. Have we a good hope? He bestowed it. Have we liberty? He bought it. Have we holiness? He wrought it. Consider what we may have been but for His grace, what we certainly should have been but for His salvation: what we are now, and what we shall be, as the effect of His love; and, "O love the LORD, all ye His saints!" It is happiness! it is holiness! it is heaven!

For Meditation:
Love all our needs supplies,
Makes great obstructions small;
'Tis prayer, 'tis praise, 'tis sacrifice;
'Tis holiness, 'tis all!