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BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US...
-Spurgeon, "Love"
"We love God, because he first loved us."
Christian, he loved you before time began,
and when in eternity he dwelt alone.
He thought of you before you had a being.
When as yet the sun and the moon were not--
when the sun, the moon, and the stars slept in the mind of
God, like unborn forests in an acorn cup, when the old sea
was not yet born, long before this infant world lay in its
swaddling bands of mist-- it was then that God had inscribed
your name upon the heart and upon the hands of Christ
indelibly, to remain for ever.
And does not this make you love God?
"We love God, because he first loved us."
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