GOD LOVES YOU by Rev. John T. Wilds

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 24, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 34.

GOD LOVES YOU.

By Rev. John T. Wilds

"Weary, tired, gloomy, glad, or cheerful, look up and smile. God is love. God loves you. Think over these things with something more than thought," one told me. God is nearer to our souls than our own bodies. "Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty One who will save; He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His love; He will joy over thee with singing." Zeph. 3:17. A root set in the finest soil, in the best climate, and blessed with all that sun and air and rain can do for it, is not in so sure a way of growth to perfection as every man may be whose spirit aspires after all that which God is ready and infinitely desirous to give him. For the sun meets not the springing bud that stretches toward him with half that certainty as God, the source of all good, communicates Himself to the soul that longs to partake of Him. Be quiet; look up; smile back to God His love-smile. We are all of us the offspring of God, more nearly related to God than to one another, for in Him we live and move and have our being.—Rev. John T. Wilds.