Greatly Loved

…man greatly loved…

— Daniel 10:11

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How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights!

— Song of Solomon 7:6

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Jesus wept. So the Jews said, ‘See how He loved him!’

— John 11:35-36

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Child of God…has your unbelief made you forget that you are greatly loved? Surely you must have been greatly loved to have been bought with the precious blood of Christ, as a lamb without blemish and without spot? When God crushed His own Son for you, what was this but being greatly loved? You lived in sin and rooted in it; surely you were greatly loved for God to have been so patient with you. You were called by grace and led to a Savior and made a child of God and an heir of heaven. Doesn’t this all prove a very great and superabounding love?

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Since that time, whether your path has been rough with troubles or smooth with mercies, it has been full of proofs that you are greatly loved. If the Lord has chastened you, it was not in anger; if He has made you poor, still in grace He has made your rich. The more unworthy you feel yourself to be, the more evidence you have that nothing but unspeakable love could have led the Lord Jesus to save a soul like yours. The more disapproval you feel, the clearer is the display of God’s abounding love in choosing you and calling you and making you an heir of heaven.

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Now if such a love exists between God and us, let us live in the influence and sweetness of it…We should not approach our Lord as though we were strangers or though He were unwilling to hear us — for we are greatly loved by our loving Father. ‘He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us All Things?’

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Come boldly believer, for despite the whispers of Satan and the doubts of your own heart, you are greatly loved. Meditate on the exceeding greatness and faithfulness of divine Love this evening, and then go to your bed in peace.

— Morning and Evening (Charles Spurgeon) - October 2: Evening

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O, beloved.

You are greatly loved, do you know? (gentle)

Do you see yourself with eyes like I see you, eyes like He sees you? (tender)

You are His joy, beloved. He weeps over you because He longs to be with you. Your beauty delights Him!

And to live in the knowledge of that great Love, beloved? Do you see the sweetness in that? (tender)

All He does, He does from a place of Love, beloved. Even that which He withholds. Let us not believe the whisper that says, like the serpent in the Garden - If He really loved you, He would not forbid this one thing…Nay! We can rest in the truth that we are greatly loved by our Beloved. He delights in us, delights to give good gifts to His children!

May we never doubt His Love for us, please? (gentle) May we, even this day, find such peace as we remember Together that we are sustained by His Love, and that He is at work, revealing this great Love to us in the very smallest of things, beloved - clouds, trees, tears, words, warmth, light, contrast, insects, wrinkles, smells, birds…We only need to look around us with eyes of faith, to see His Love made manifest.

You are a man greatly loved, a man after His own heart, beloved. You are! See how Jesus loves you? (tender) He whispers words of Love to your spirit even now, my love. Listen, please. And you will hear, and be at peace.