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Morning and Evening

October 2, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"A man greatly beloved." — Daniel 10:11 · KJV

Child of God, do you hesitate to claim this title? Ah, has your unbelief made you forget that you too are greatly beloved? Must you not have been greatly beloved, to be 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 reveled in it; must you not have been greatly beloved, for God to bear so patiently with you? You were called by grace and led to a Savior, made a child of God and an heir of heaven. Does not all this prove 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, it was not in anger; if He has made you poor, in grace you have been 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 such a soul as yours. The more demerit you feel, the clearer the display of the abounding love of God in choosing you, calling you, and making you an heir of bliss. Now, if there is such love between God and us, let us live in the influence and sweetness of it, and use the privilege of our position. Let us not 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 your own heart, you are greatly beloved. Meditate on the exceeding greatness and faithfulness of divine love this evening, and so go to your bed in peace.