Believer, look back through all your experiences. Think about the way the Lord your God has led you through the wilderness of life. How he has fed you and clothed you every single day! How he has borne with your ill manners—how he has put up with all your murmurings, all your longings for the flesh-pots of Egypt! How he has opened rocks to supply you with water and fed you with manna from heaven!

Think of how his grace has been sufficient for you in every trouble—how his blood has been a pardon for all your sins—how his rod and his staff have comforted you.

But when you've looked back on the love of the Lord, don't stop there! Let faith survey his love in the future, for remember—Christ's covenant and blood contain something more than just the past. He who has loved you and pardoned you shall never cease to love and pardon. He is Alpha, and he shall be Omega also: he is first, and he shall be last.

Therefore, consider this: when you pass through the valley of the shadow of death, you need fear no evil, for he is with you. When you stand in the cold floods of Jordan, you need not fear, for death cannot separate you from his love. And when you come into the mysteries of eternity, you need not tremble. "For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Now, soul, is not your love refreshed? Does not this make you love Jesus? Does not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame your heart and compel you to delight yourself in the Lord your God?

Surely as we meditate on "the love of the Lord," our hearts burn within us, and we long to love him more.