INFINITE LOVE!

“O Lord of hosts, how long will thou not have mercy upon me? And the Lord answered with good words and comfortable words.” Zechariah 1:12-13

What a sweet answer to an anxious enquiry! This day rejoice in it. O child of God, there are good things in store for thee; thy time of travail shall soon be over; thy captivity shall end. Bear patiently the rod for a season and under the darkness still trust in God, for His love burns towards thee. God loves you with a love too deep for human imagination; He loves you with all His infinite heart.

Therefore, be of good courage; you cannot be far from prosperity to whom God speaks “good words and comfortable words.” What these comfortable words are, the prophet goes on to tell us: “I am jealous for you with a great jealousy.” The Lord loves you so much that He cannot bear that you should go astray to others; and if you have done so, He cannot endure that you should suffer too much or too heavily.

He will not have His enemies afflict you; He is displeased with them because they increase in your misery. When it seems that God has left you, know His heart is warm towards you. History shows that whenever God uses a rod to chasten His servants, He always breaks it afterwards, as if He loathed the rod which gave His children pain. “Like a father pities his children, so the Lord pities them that fear Him.” God has not forgotten you!

You may fear that God has passed you by, but it is not so. He who counts the stars, and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting you. He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature He ever made or the only saint He ever loved. Approach Him and be at peace! AMEN!