The Spirit brought home to me the other morning an old scripture with great power. It was only this: "Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus." ( John 11.) In this very chapter Martha does nothing save to blunder, and exhibit her blindness to the glory of the Person of her Lord, and yet the chapter is prefaced by the statement that Jesus loved her. It touched me deeply as I saw a little of the significance of the statement, and it taught me that the Lord's love to us rises above all our failures, and that, therefore, we may count upon it and rest in it at all times.