God is love and goodness. Fill the soul with goodness, and fill the soul with love, that is the filling it with God. "If we love one another, God dwelleth in us." There is nothing else that can satisfy.
Perchance—He knows—canst thou not trust His love?
Pause, fellow-sinner, fellow man, before that wonderful Being that you find now in the manger, now on the cross; follow His wonderful footsteps; dwell on His words; hear His prayers; gaze on His tears,—nay, on His flowing blood, until you fully and firmly believe, never to doubt it, or forget that God loves us when we do not love Him.
Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.
He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun;
He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes.
If in His love so terrible, what then
His wrath inflamed?
Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.
We love Him, because He first loved us.
