26. "I believe that Jesus died for me, but I am afraid to say I am saved, for 1 know I do not love God as much as I should.”

I question if any one loves Him as He ought to be loved But it is a grave mistake to be looking in your own heart for love. Rather rejoice in the amazing love of God for you as expressed in the Cross of Christ, and in all His care for you through the years. We say sometimes that "love begets love." This is very true in regard to love for God. As you are occupied with His love, your own heart will respond to it and you will be able to say, "We love him, because he first loved us." Looking into your own heart for a ground of confidence is like casting the anchor in the hold of a ship. Cast it outside and let it go down, down, down into the great, tossing ocean of strife and trouble, until it grips the Rock itself. Christ alone is the Rock, and He is the manifestation of the infinite love of God for sinners.
The following lines are of uncertain authorship, but they are most blessedly true:
“Could we with ink the ocean fill,
Were every blade of grass a quill,
Were the world of parchment made
And every man a scribe by trades
To write the love
Of God above
Would drain that ocean dry;
Nor would the scroll
Contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky!”