Thank God—Sunday is *almost* here again! To help us get ready for church, here is Thomas Watson, from his, "A Divine Cordial.” . . .
"The nature of our love to God, is that it is an expansion of our souls, or the inflaming of the affections, by which we Christians breathe after God as the Supreme and Sovereign Good. Love is to the soul as the weights are to the [grandfather-type] clock. Love sets the soul on a course toward God. By love we cleave to God, as the needle to the magnet."The ground of our love to God is knowledge. We cannot love that which we do not know. That our love may be drawn fully to God, we must know these three things about Him. . . .
“1. His Fullness (Col. 1:19). God has a fullness of grace so as to cleanse us; and He has a fullness of glory so as to crown us. . . . God is a sea of good-ness without limit and banks.
“2. God's freeness. The Lord has an innate propensity to dispense mercy and grace. ‘Whoever will, let him take of the water of life freely,' (Rev. 22:17). God does not require that we bring money with us, only our appetite.
“3. God's propriety, or property. We must know that this fullness in God is ours. 'This God is our God,' (Psa. 48:14). Here is the ground of God’s love: His Deity, and the interest we have in Him."
