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God is Love

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 27, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 7, No. 26.

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God is Love.

By J. F. B.

“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on her offspring? Yea, they may forget, yet will not I forget thee.” Isa. xlix, 15.
The Bible is full of good and precious promises; and those who have made God their hope have never found an hour so filled with sorrow and darkness that a gleam has not shone from the Father of lights to inspire hope, and give strength to the fainting soul. How illustrative of God’s tender mercy is the passage above quoted : though a mother may forget her offspring, the child she loves, yet will not God forget his chosen few on earth.
Could the servant of the Lord feel how great the love of God towards him is, truly he would never faint and repine. But here we see and know only in part, and it doth not yet appear what is laid up for the people of God; but they have a volume filled with hope-inspiring promises to comfort them while they tarry ’mid sorrow and sin; and the joys and beauties of the land to which they journey are in this volume portrayed in language too beautiful for any but an inspired penman to utter. Truly God is love, and so loves his people that he will safely lead them through every hour of sorrow and temptation till they reach that home which the Creator of all things will fitly prepare for those who are worthy to receive it.
J. F. B.
Buck’s Bridge, St. Law. Co., N. Y.