Key Verse: "The Lord
hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an
everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee."
- Jeremiah 31:3 KJV
The law of love is the law of God's moral government of
His people. By this, and by this alone, He rules them. All that is
disciplinary in His conduct is resolvable into love. It is by kindness,
"loving-kindness," yes, "marvelous loving-kindness," that He wins back their
truant hearts, and binds them closer to Himself. "I am the Lord, who
exercise loving-kindness."
Oh, to imitate Him in this particular!- to be
like God in His kindness to the children of men. Then would there be less
sitting in the judgment-seat; less readiness to cast the first stone; less
harshness and censoriousness in our conduct and spirit towards others; and
more of that self-judging, self-condemning, and self-abasement, before the
holy, heart-searching, all-seeing Lord God, without which we may be awfully
deceived.
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