O how strange--that God should love a worm, a dung-hill worm!

Back to THE LOVE OF JESUS INDEX

---

(The following is an excerpt from the diary of "http://gracegems.org/Smith5/Smith_Sermons.htm" James Smith<)

August 28, 1857. 
If some of my congregation knew me better — they would love me less! Yet my heavenly Father . . . 
  knows me well,
  favors me much,
  and loves me wonderfully!
O how strange — that God should love a worm, a dung-hill worm — one who was bred in sin, loved sin, felt at home in sin, and at times felt regret that he was debarred from some sins! O if God had left me to myself — what would I have been, and what would I have done! "But by the grace of God — I am what I am!" 1 Corinthians 15:10 

Surely, surely, I must say, that divine love and wisdom have planned my path — from first to last. I am . . .
  out of Hell, 
  in the way to Heaven,
  employed by God,
  useful to saints, and
  a blessing to sinners! 
O how wonderful, how wonderful is this