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  HE LONGS FOR OUR LOVE
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: God desires our love so He can make us supremely happy and
reveal Himself to us.

Topics: "Gods Love", "Eternal Life"
Scripture References: Psalm 73:28

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about God's everlasting love for us,
drawing us close with His lovingkindness. She emphasizes the importance
of using life's circumstances to draw near to God and prepare for
eternity. God longs for our feeble love because it brings Him joy and
allows Him to make us supremely happy. By loving God, who is ever
lovely, we can become lovely ourselves and experience the fullness of
His love and presence.

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Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with
lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

JEREMIAH 31:3

MY song is love unknown;

My Saviour's love to me;

Love to the loveless shown,

That they might lovely be.

SAMUEL CROSSMAN

HE so governs and shapes all the circumstances of life, that if we use
them aright we may draw near to Him here, and prepare to be near Him in
the Forever after. He longs for our love,--our love, which is so feeble
and faint, and yet so precious in His sight when we give it to Him
freely. And why does He so desire it? Ah! I have told you many times
before, and yet we cannot too often remember it, that it is because, if
we love Him, He can make us supremely happy. All that belongs to us, or
occurs to us, in this life, is so ordered that we may find in it the
means of putting far from us those obstructions of evil which prevent us
from seeing Him as He is, and as He has revealed Himself to us; for if
we did but so see Him, how could we fail to love Him with the whole
heart and soul?

THEOPHILUS PARSONS

How shall we become lovely? By loving Him who is ever lovely.

ST. AUGUSTINE

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/he-longs-for-our-love/
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