The following excerpts are from Spurgeon’s Morning devotional for yesterday (From Morning & Evening Devotional Revised and Updated by Alistair Begg.) My mentor gave me this devotional book for my birthday last month. I love it.
…Our love for Him is the result of His love for us. When studying the works of God, anyone may respond with cold admiration, but the warmth of love can only be kindled in the heart by God’s Spirit. What a wonder that any of us, knowing what we’re like, should ever have been brought to love Jesus at all! …
… Love, then, has for it’s parent the love of God shed abroad in the heart; But after it is divinely born, it must be divinely nourished. It is not like a plant, which will flourish naturally in human soil–it must be watered from above. …
… Love must feed on love. The very soul and life of our love for God is His love for us.
I love Thee, Lord, but with no love of mine,
For I have none to give;
I love Thee, Lord; but all the love is Thine,
For by Thy love I live.
I am as nothing, and rejoice to be
Emptied, and lost, and swallowed up in Thee.
Think about it, every time we yearn for God, to know Him and love Him, perhaps it isn’t our own yearnings we are experiencing … it is His yearnings made manifest in us for us. Our minds, those born of the Spirit, quite naturally supernaturally respond with meditation, prayer and worship. Yet the passion in our hearts is really initiated by Him drawing us close.
It’s not simply an issue of "I love You Lord, help me to love You more." It is more often than not, "I am empty Lord, fill me with Your love so we can have communion."
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