If thou art a man greatly beloved, and thou knowest it, thou wilt be a brave man. Moreover, this assurance of God's love will make us very courageous. When faith is side by side with love, it-Īnd love goes and does it for there is nothing which the love of God will not enable us to do. What is there that a man cannot do when he is in love even with one of his own race but when he gets to be in love with God, and knows of a certainty that he is greatly beloved of God, he would cut his way through a lane of devils, he would face an army of angels, and defeat them all for love is a conquering grace. "Ye are not your own for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's" In proportion as we are sure of his love, our love to him will burn like coals of juniper, which have a most vehement heat and everything contrary to the will of God will be consumed in that blessed flame.Ī sense of divine love will also strengthen us. If called to stand in God's immediate presence as a courtier and a favourite, you must take care how you behave yourself, and you will do so.
He who lives in the heart of the king must be faithful to him. I believe that, to know certainly that you are greatly beloved of God, will make you feel that you cannot live as others do. Whatsoever he saith unto us, we are glad to do, as a proof that we really are grateful for "love so amazing, so divine." When we feel how much we owe, then we seek to know the will of God, and take a delight in doing it. I am sure that a certainty of having the love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost, is one of the greatest promoters of holy gratitude and holy gratitude is the mother of obedience. You will bring our your alabaster-box from its hiding-place you will willingly enough break it, and pour the precious ointment upon the dear head of him who has loved you so greatly. "Oh!" you will say, "how can I repay the Lord for such an amazing favour?" You will be conscious that you never can repay him but you will begin working out all sorts of schemes and plans to try to show how much you value the love of God. When the two are blended, they sink the soul very low, not in depression of spirit, but in its estimate of itself.Ī sense of God's love will also excite in you great gratitude.
I think a sense of God's love is even more humbling than a sense of our own sin. You will say, "How could God ever love me? If you know, my dear brother, of a surety, that you are a man greatly beloved of God, you will become very humble. The knowledge that they were greatly beloved of God, instead of doing us harm, will be a means of blessings in many ways. They rose to the greatest height of spiritual obedience, and then to the greatest height of spiritual enjoyment. Those two men, Daniel and John, were choice saints.
It has often been said that Daniel is the John of the Old Testament, and John is the Daniel of the New Testament. Daniel was not injured by knowing that he was greatly beloved.
Such knowledge might do some of us, who are Christians, the greatest conceivable good. I know of no greater blessing that can happen to any man and woman here, than to be assured by the Spirit of God that they are greatly beloved of the Lord. Do not you have any such fear for other people, and especially do not be afraid of it for yourselves.
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Some people are always afraid that, if Christian people obtain full assurance, and receive a sweet sense of divine love, they will grow proud, and be carried away with conceit. It did not do Daniel any harm to know that he was greatly beloved of God or else he would not have received that information from heaven. "O Daniel, a man greatly beloved."- Dan 10:11 Intended for Reading on Lord's-Day, May 15th, 1892,Īt the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
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