How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the comfort of knowing that the Savior's love remains constant, especially when other relationships fail.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon highlights the profound sense of solace that comes from recognizing the unwavering love of the Savior during times of loneliness and abandonment. He suggests that the Savior's love is a source of strength and reassurance, particularly when friends or loved ones may turn away, reminding us that we are never truly forsaken and that divine love is steadfast and enduring.
In practice
In a church service discussing the comforting aspects of spiritual love.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.
And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.
He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force._x000D_ _x000D_ My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay._x000D_ _x000D_ I will greet this day with love in my heart.
'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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