Day 2: Because He first loved
We love Him because He first loved us (1 John 4:19 – NKJV).
There is no light in the planet but that which cometh from the sun; there is no light in the moon but that which is borrowed, and there is no true love in the heart but that which cometh from God. Love is the light, the life, and way of the universe.
Now, God is both life, and light, and way, and, to crown all, God is love. From this overflowing fountain of the infinite love of God, all our love to God must spring. This must ever be a great and certain truth, that we love Him, for no other reason than because He first loved us...
Will you not go… by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life, come poverty, come wealth— in death, come pain, or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's; for this is written on your heart, "We love Him, because He first loved us."
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon ~ Love ~ December 19, 1858
O perfect Love, all human thought transcending,
Lowly we kneel in prayer before Thy throne,
That theirs may be the love which knows no ending,
Whom Thou forevermore dost join in one.
O perfect Life, be Thou their full assurance,
Of tender charity and steadfast faith,
Of patient hope and quiet, brave endurance,
With childlike trust that fears not pain nor death.
Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;
Grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife;
And to life’s day the glorious unknown morrow
That dawns upon eternal love and life.
~ Dorothy F. Gurney~ 1888
