the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
The Believer's Daily Remembrancer
Keep yourselves in the love of God. - Judges 1:21
The love of God to His people is free, unspeakably great, and eternal; our love to God is dependant on His love to us as its source, on faith and fellowship with Him as its fuel; therefore we are exhorted to keep ourselves in the love of God.
This implies that we are beloved of God, and that we know it, and love Him in return. That we should endeavour to retain our standing, and keep ourselves sensibly in the love of God, by setting it always before our minds; exercising our faith on it; and seeking the enjoyment of it by prayer and in the Lord’s ways.
We should keep ourselves in the exercise of love to God, by avoiding temptations, walking by faith, and living as in His presence. We should keep ourselves in the exercise of love one to another, by exhortation, forbearance, and example. We should preserve ourselves by the love of God from the temptations of Satan, the snares of the world, and the lusts of the flesh.
Beloved, consider how the love of God aggravates our sins; how it should fire us with courage to oppose everything that is unholy or forbidden.
O love divine, how sweet Thou art!
When shall I end my longing heart
All taken up by Thee?
Grant me, O gracious Lord, to prove
The sweetness of redeeming love,
The love of Christ to me.
