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SOMEONE is in Love With YOU !

CHRISTIAN FRIEND - - did you ever really fall in love ? If you have ever been
truly in love with someone, you have had an unforgettable experience, even if
you "loved and lost".

Remember the joy of anticipation whenever you had the opportunity of looking
forward to even a little time with your beloved ? Remember the yearning of
your heart to he re-united when circumstances kept you apart? How could you
forget it, if you ever experienced the "real thing"! Well, let me remind you
of perhaps the most glorious fact in all the universe: SOMEONE - - yes, the
most wonderful Person who ever lived, is feeling that way right now about you!

This is said, assuming that you are most probably in the condition of 99% of
the folk who have known what it is to be born into the family of God through
the "New Birth" of which Jesus spoke in the third chapter of John, and for
whom he later said concerning his admonition to "abide in me as a branch
abideth in the vine": " These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might
remain in you and that your joy might be full."

Is your joy continuously FULL these days in Him, Christian friend? Are you
growing in your Christian life spiritually till you can honestly sing "
Sweeter as the DAYS Go By"? Not many Christians are, you know. So very many
things get in the way of this kind of abiding. Some of us get so busy serving
the God we love we have no time to love the God we serve! Some of us are so
busy we only dimly realize how far from that first fervent love we have
drifted. But HE does! I believe the most thrilling contemplation I have in my
Christian life is to realize that in spite of all the maze of complications
into which I may have allowed myself to become involved - - in spite of the
trials and difficulties I may be going through, there is my Beloved, waiting,
yearning, doing His best to draw me into His comforting arms and forgive me as
soon as I ask Him to, for my fussing, doubting, complaining, or anything else
that has temporarily dimmed for me, the joy of His presence. Oh what a
privilege to have a Friend like that! To know that He loves me with an
everlasting love that never dims and to realize the fantastic truth that HE
yearns for me, and for my reciprocated love !

Dear Christian friend, never for a moment forget that His love is the most
precious asset you will ever have. The most precious that anybody ever had.
And remember, DO remember that a love like His carries with it (for Him) a
great ache of heart when it is even temporarily separated from the object of
its affection. Just think of it. every moment that you are not reciprocating
His love fervently, joyously, gladly and eagerly, is a moment in which you are
causing His great heart to ache, for He loves you like that. Yes, always
remember that the only thing in all the universe that will satisfy any lover
is reciprocated love from the object of his affection - - freely returned in
like manner and intensity with which it is given. And nobody ever loved you as
He loves you, Why, He loved you thousands of years before you were born! Yes,
we can give you multiple references from His precious Word that He knew way
back in the eons of eternity past (before He even made the world to put you
in) that you would mis-use your freedom of choice and fall into sin - -
hopelessly lost without a Saviour. And way back there, the plans were made
with the Father, to come and rescue you out of your misery, to save you from
the awful fate sin would have brought to you if He had not come to be your
substitute and die in your place. Why did the Father, to Whom the Son was so
precious that He was "daily His delight", permit Him to suffer like that for
you? Just because He DID love Him so! Like any good father, He wanted His
beloved Son to have a bride that would truly satisfy His heart with real,
fervent, reciprocated love! Don't rob Him of that.

Joel H. Darby