A man greatly beloved.
Daniel 10:11
"Child of God,
do you hesitate to appropriate this title?
Ah! has your unbelief made you forget that you are greatly beloved
too? Must you not have been greatly beloved, to have been bought with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot? When God smote His only begotten Son for you, what was this but being greatly beloved?
You lived in sin, and rioted in it,
must you not have been greatly beloved
for God to have borne so patiently with you?
You were called by grace and led to a Savior,
and made a child of God and an heir of heaven.
If the Lord has chastened you, yet not in anger; if He has made you poor, yet in grace you have been rich. The more unworthy you feel yourself to be, the more evidence have you that nothing but unspeakable love could have led the Lord Jesus to save such a soul as yours.
Come boldly, O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved. Meditate on the exceeding greatness and faithfulness of divine love this evening, and so go to thy bed in peace."
Charles Spurgeon
