“A man greatly beloved.” 
              — Daniel 10:11

Child of God, do you hesitate to appropriate this title? Ah! has your
unbelief made you forget that you are greatly beloved too? Must you not
have been greatly beloved, to have been bought with the precious blood
of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot? When God
smote his only begotten Son for you, what was this but being greatly
beloved? You lived in sin, and rioted in it, must you not have been
greatly beloved for God to have borne so patiently with you? You were
called by grace and led to a Saviour, and made a child of God and an
heir of heaven. All this proves, does it not, a very great and
superabounding love? Since that time, whether your path has been rough
with troubles, or smooth with mercies, it has been full of proofs that
you are a man greatly beloved. If the Lord has chastened you, yet not
in anger; if he has made you poor, yet in grace you have been rich. The
more unworthy you feel yourself to be, the more evidence have you that
nothing but unspeakable love could have led the Lord Jesus to save such
a soul as yours. The more demerit you feel, the clearer is the display
of the abounding love of God in having chosen you, and called you, and
made you an heir of bliss. Now, if there be such love between God and
us let us live in the influence and sweetness of it, and use the
privilege of our position. Do not let us approach our Lord as though we
were strangers, or as though he were unwilling to hear us-for we are
greatly beloved by our loving Father. “He that spared not his own Son,
but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things?” Come boldly, O believer, for despite the
whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art
greatly beloved. Meditate on the exceeding greatness and faithfulness
of divine love this evening, and so go to thy bed in peace.

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