“Love the LORD, all his faithful people!” (Psalm 31:23) The Lord must have loved you when you were going on in sin. You talked about his ministers and called his people fools. You didn’t honor his Sabbaths and left his precious book unread; you never sought his grace. Sometimes, perhaps, you used to curse him, perhaps persecute him and his children, and yet he loved you. And when his Spirit came after you, you tried to quench it. Oh how he loved you, when he received you all covered with muck and mire, filthy to his bosom. He took you in his arms, kissed you and accepted you as his own. Since then he has watched over you in sickness, oh, how he has carried you in his bosom when the road was rough, oh, how he has covered you with his wings, and nurtured you with his feathers. He seems to have moved heaven and earth to bless you; oh, how he has always had a ready ear to hear your prayer, and a swift foot to run to your immediate help. Remember this, above all things— how little you have loved Him in return. You have served him but little, given him the crumbs, you have brought him no sweet cane, neither have you filled him with the fat of your sacrifices. You have offered to him your prayers, the blind and the maimed; you have given him sacrifice, but have you returned to him according to his kindness to you? He gave his whole self for you; have you given your whole being up to him? Dear Lord, speak unto them and say, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” Shed thy love in their hearts. May they have an infinite consciousness of thy infinite, thy boundless, thy fathomless, thy endless love to them, and then thy work is done; there will be no need for thy poor servant to cry, “Oh love the Lord all ye his saints,” for they will love thee to the full. Charles Spurgeon
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