February 4 — Morning

Believer, look back through all your experience, and think of the way by which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness, and how He has fed and clothed you every day-how He has borne with your ill manners-how He has put up with all your murmurings, and all your longings after the flesh-pots of Egypt-how He has opened the rock to supply you, and fed you with manna that came down from heaven. Think of how His grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles-how His blood has been a pardon to you in all your sins-how His rod and His staff have comforted you. When you have thus looked back upon the love of the Lord, then let faith survey His love in the future, for remember that Christ's covenant and blood have something more in them than the past. He who has loved you and pardoned you, shall never cease to love and pardon. He is Alpha, and He shall be Omega also: He is first, and He shall be last. Therefore, bethink you, when you shalt pass through the valley of the shadow of death, you needest fear no evil, for He is with you. When you shalt stand in the cold floods of Jordan, you needest not fear, for death cannot separate you from His love; and when you shalt come into the mysteries of eternity you needest not tremble, "For I am persuaded, that neither death; nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Now, soul, is not your love refreshed? Does not this make you love Jesus? Does not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame your heart and compel you to delight thyself in the Lord your God? Surely as we meditate on "the love of the Lord," our hearts burn within us, and we long to love Him more.