Tokens of God's Love Everywhere

[Daily Devotional]

Tokens of God's Love Everywhere 

     For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that
formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not
in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none
else. Isa. 45:18.  

     Through the goodness of God we have been surrounded with
innumerable blessings. There are tokens of His love on every hand.
Nature seems to be rejoicing before us. The beautiful things in heaven
and earth express the love and favor of the Lord of hosts toward the
inhabitants of the world. The sunshine and the rain fall on the evil and
the good. The hills and seas and plains are all speaking eloquently to
the soul of man of the Creator's love. It is God who brings the bud to
bloom, the flower to fruit, and it is He who supplies our daily needs.
Not a sparrow falls to the ground without the Father's notice. Our minds
should go up in gratitude and adoration to the Giver of every  good and
perfect gift.  

     We should teach our children to consider the works of God. They
should be instructed on His love and the provision He has made for their
salvation. Lead them to give their young hearts as a grateful offering,
fragrant with love, to Him who has died for them. Point out the
attractive loveliness of the earth, and tell them of the world that is
to come that shall never know the blight of sin and death, where the
face of nature will no more wear the shadow of the curse. Lead their
young minds to contemplate the glories of the reward that awaits the
children of God. Cultivate their imaginative powers by picturing the
splendor of the new earth and the city of God; and when they are charmed
with the prospect, tell them it will be more glorious than their
brightest imagination can portray. . . .  

     The poet and the naturalist have many things to say about nature,
but it is the Christian who enjoys the beauty of the earth with the
highest appreciation, because he recognizes his Father's handiwork and
perceives His love in flower and shrub and tree. No one can fully
appreciate the significance of hill and vale, river and sea, who does
not look upon them as an expression of the love of God to man. 

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