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  HIS LOVE, NOT OURS
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: God's love is unconditional and based on His pity and
compassion, not our worthiness or emotions.

Topics: "Gods Love", "Redemption"
Scripture References: Psalm 103:13, Isaiah 63:9

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the unconditional and compassionate
love of God, emphasizing how He redeems and pities His people like a
loving father does to his children. The sermon reflects on the deep
yearning for God's love in our hearts and the transformative power of
surrendering to His love, even in moments of doubt or when we feel
unworthy. Tileston encourages looking up to God's love in times of need,
knowing that His love is not dependent on our feelings but on His
unchanging nature of compassion and pity towards us.

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In His love and in His pity He redeemed them.

--ISAIAH 63:9

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that
fear Him.

--PSALMS 103:13

GOD only knows the love of God:

Oh, that it now were shed abroad

In this poor stony heart;

For love I sigh, for love I pine;

This only portion, Lord, be mine,

Be mine this better part.

--CHARLES WESLEY

DON'T measure God's mind by your own. It would be a poor love that
depended not on itself, but on the feelings of the person loved. A
crying baby turns away from its mother's breast, but she does not put it
away till it stops crying. She holds it closer. For my part, in the
worst mood I am ever in, when I don't feel I love God at all, I just
look up to His love. I say to Him, "Look at me. See what state I am in.
Help me!" Ah! you would wonder how that makes peace. And the love comes
of itself; sometimes so strong, it nearly breaks my heart.

--GEORGE MACDONALD

He does not love us because we art so lovely, but because He always
loves what He pities.

--ELIZABETH PRENTISS

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/his-love-not-ours/
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