Love Rest In God

MY DEAR LORD

I depend wholly upon thee,

wean me from all other dependences.

Thou art my all, thou dost overrule all and delight in me.

Thou art the foundation of goodness,

how can I distrust thee?

how be anxious about what happens to me?

In the light of thy preciousness

the world and all its enjoyments are infinitely poor:

I value the favour of men no more than pebbles.

Amid the blessings I receive from thee

may I never lose the heart of a stranger.

May I love thee, my benefactor, in all my benefits,

not forgetting that my greatest danger arises from my advantages.

Produce in me self-despair that will make Jesus precious to me,

delightful in all his offices,

pleasurable in all his ways,

and may I love his commands as well as his promises.

Help me to discern between true and false love,

the one consisting of supreme love to thee, the other not,

the former uniting thy glory and man’s happiness

that they may become one common interest,

the latter disjointing and separating them both,

seeking the latter with neglect of the former.

Teach me that genuine love is different in kind

from that wrought by rational arguments

or the motive of self-interest,

that such love is a pleasing passion affording

joy to the mind where it is.

Grant me grace to distinguish between the genuine and the false,

and to rest in thee who art all love.

This week’s devotionals are from The Valley of Vision

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