I love the Lord

I love the Lord

"I love the Lord—because He has heard my voice and my supplications! " Psalm 116:1

Christian reader, surely you are ready to join your testimony to that of the Psalmist, and to praise your God as the Hearer of prayers! Often have you found it good to visit His throne of grace.

You have come to Him with your darkness —and He has scattered it.

You have come to Him with your burden of guilt —and He has removed it.

You have come to Him with your corruptions —and He has subdued them.

You have come to Him laden with care —and He has helped you to cast it on Him.

You have come to Him in your perplexity —and He has guided you.

You have come to Him in your sorrow —and He has comforted you.

He has been very gracious to you at the voice of your cry. And when He has delayed to answer your petitions—His delay was in love; at the right time He has appeared for you, when you have asked the right thing. And so among many other reasons for loving the Lord—you love Him because He has heard your voice and your supplications.

And what return will you make to Him for all His goodness to you in the past? Surely you are ready to reply, "I will praise His name, and tell of His goodness to others! I will still wait upon Him—and ask Him for more. Because He has inclined His ear unto me—therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live!"

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