Yes, He Loved The People

MARCH 30

Yea, He loved the people.

Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand:

and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall

receive of thy words.   Deuteronomy 33:3

And what were, the people whom He loved? Poor, oppressed, rebellious, stiff-neck, hardhearted, unworthy creatures. Just such are His people by nature now. Sure are we. Yet he loved us; pities us; and distinguishes us from others around us.

He spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all; and with Him, He will freely give us all things. Though He has not yet all His people with Him, yet He has Jesus sitting at His right hand, who is their Representative; the express image and exact lightness of His elect.

All the rays of His love centre in Him, who is the head of His body the Church. All the streams of delight empty themselves into Him, and through Him flow down to every believer on earth.

As He loveth Christ, so He loveth us; while He loveth Jesus, He will love us; for Christ and we are one.

What is done to us, is done to Him, and what is done to, or bestowed upon Him, as man and Mediator, is done to and bestowed upon us.

Oh, glorious mystery of infinite and eternal love!  Oh, direct my heart into this love of God!

O love of unexampled kind!

That leaves all the thought so far behind;

Where length, and breadth, and depth, and height,

Are lost to my astonish’d  sight;

Lord, shed abroad that love of Thine

In this poor sinful heart of mine.

James Smith