"HE THAT DWELLETH IN LOVE DWELLETH IN GOD." So writes the Apostle of love. Who can fully describe God's love? What tongue or pen can set it forth? It is infinite: what can finite mortals say? It is eternal: how can we who are but of yesterday declare it? It is the token of heaven to the saints, to know and receive the love that God has to them. None can reveal it to us, or shed it abroad in our hearts, but the Holy Spirit. He can direct our hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Jesus Christ. He is in office to show the saints the things of God, and enable them to receive and enjoy them. Let us, beloved, daily pray that we may know and enjoy the love that God hath to us; it will be an antidote to all our miseries, a comfort under all our sorrows. Our friends may change, but the love of God changes never. Our temporal prospects may be blighted, but if we know and accept the love of God, we cannot be unhappy. Who or what shall separate us from the love of God? Jesus has told us that we shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck us out of His hand. The love of God is the source of our happiness and the foundation of our safety. O to know and receive the wonderful love which God hath to us!

For Meditation:
What shall I do my God to love?
'Twas He who first loved me;
I know when I'm safe home above,
My Saviour face-to-face I'll see;
Before that day, e'en now, dear Lord,
I will love Thee by life and word.