GOD IS LOVE by L. E. Miller

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 3, 1867

GOD IS LOVE.

By L. E. Miller

“They that dwell in Him dwell in love.” Oh, how exalted the blessed privilege of having the love of God shed abroad in our hearts. My brother, my sister, is this precious love in your hearts? Have you tasted the sweets of redeeming love, and are you laying up your treasure in Heaven? Do you have your conversation as becometh the gospel of Christ? Are you forgetting the things that are behind and pressing forward to that exceeding great and eternal weight of glory, reserved in Heaven for those that fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold of eternal life? Do you count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord? Can you take joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance? Is your adorning even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price? Are you purifying your souls in obeying the truth, and do you love each other with a pure heart fervently? Oh, then is your peace like a river and your righteousness as the waves of the sea. Great peace have they that love his law and nothing shall offend them. Then indeed will you be a living epistle, known and read of all men. Oh, how good it is to trust in the Lord, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. Well may we exclaim, Oh, what love! What wondrous love! God so loved the world as to give his only begotten Son to die for us, and we may hide in his love, and under the shadow of his wings we may find a refuge. Oh, fear the Lord, ye his saints; for there is no want to those that fear him. Then, indeed, can you go on your way rejoicing in the blessed hope with your eye fixed on the prize. Oh, this blessed hope! how it comforts our weary hearts and buoys us up amid the storms and conflicts of these last days. Oh, let us gird on the gospel armor a little closer, that we may be able to quench all the fiery darts of Satan, who, knowing that his time is short, would deceive, if possible, the very elect. Oh, let us extol the name of the Lord, who calleth us not to go a warfare at our own charges, but arms and equips us for the fight and gives his angels charge over us to deliver us out of all our distresses. Oh, let us magnify his holy name, for he is good, and his mercy endureth forever. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope is in the Lord, for he shall be as a tree planted by the water, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green, and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding her fruits. Oh, how blessed to be adopted into his dear family and look up with confidence and cry, Abba, Father. Oh, the Christian’s hope looks glorious, and ’tis bright with immortality beyond this vale of tears. Jesus is soon coming with all his holy angels to take his children home; and who of us will be ready to hail him with joy and gladness? Dear reader, whoever you are, whether high or low, rich or poor, this precious hope may be yours. Yes, we may have the love of God shed abroad in our poor hearts. We may taste and see that the Lord is good. The invitation is extended to all. Ho, every one that thirsteth: come ye, to the waters; and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Oh, hear ye the word of the Lord! Wherefore do ye spend your money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear and your soul shall live and I will make an everlasting covenant with you. Oh, the spirit and the bride say, come. And will you not come, while the angel of mercy is entreating, while all Heaven is interested for you, will you not come and be saved?

L. E. MILLER.

Owasso, Nov. 22, 1867.