Day 3 - Tuesday | Daily Devotions | Morning and Evening | Connect the Testaments | My Utmost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Day |
Morning, October 22 Go To Evening Reading "I will love them freely." —Hosea 14:4 This sentence is a body of divinity in miniature. He who understands its meaning is a theologian, and he who can dive into its fulness is a true master in Israel. It condenses the glorious message of salvation in Christ Jesus our Redeemer. The sense hinges upon the word "freely." This is magnificent, "he said, the divine way love streams from heaven to earth, a spontaneous love flowing forth to those who neither deserved it, purchased it, nor sought it. It is the only way in which God can love us as we are. The text is a death blow to all sorts of fitness: "I will love them freely ." "If any fitness was necessary for us, then He would not love us freely; at least, this would be a mitigation and a drawback to its freeness. But it stands, "I will love you freely." We compare, "Lord, my heart is sad." "Between thou feelings I need of Ch...