December 21: A Higher Motive

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O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth. Psalm 96:11O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth. (Psalm 96:1)
SA 40:3{SA 96:1{It is not only for the sake of the unsaved that we want them so much to come to the Savior. Our earnestness has a stronger spring than even that. We love our Lord, so that we cannot bear Him not to be esteemed aright. We cannot bear Him to be thought little of, and to be misunderstood; it is pain, real pain, to us when He is not appreciated and loved and adored—when all that He has done is treated as not worth whole-hearted gratitude and love—when His great and blood-bought salvation is neglected. For His own beloved sake, for His own glory's sake, we want others to come, that they too may love, and bless, and glorify Him!
Do ye doubt our feeble witness? Though ye scorn us, come and see!
Come and hear Him for yourselves, and ye shall know that it is He!
Ye shall find in Him the Center, the very Truth and Life,
Resplendent resolution of the endless doubt and strife.