June 13

God commendeth his love to us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.—Romans 5:8.

IN view of God's wonderful, unfathomable love as manifest in redemption, do I give him the return that he asks, namely, the love and homage of my heart and life? Do I realize the fact that though God hates the sin, he loves the sinner, even when in the sinfulness of his sins, and that to win us back to himself, he gave his well-beloved Son to die that we might live? Does his love to me, lead me to live for him?

The wonder in heaven, which eclipses all other marvels in heaven, earth and hell, is, and ever will be, the unspeakable love of God in Christ, by which salvation is freely offered to the very chief of sinners.—OWEN.

All earthly love is as nothing to the love of God. He so loved us as to give his Son to die for us; as to impart his Holy Spirit to us; as to prepare the kingdom of glory for us; as to give us exceeding great and precious promises; as to make us his children and heirs for ever. How then ought we to love him!

See, from his head, his hands, his feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down; Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown? Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small; Love, so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all.

—WATTS.