"I have loved thee with an everlasting love."
Believer, art thou now tempted to doubt His love? Are His footsteps lost amid the night shadows, through which He is now conducting thee? What appears to thee now some capricious exercise of His power or sovereignty is the determination and decree of everlasting love. He seems to say, "I loved thee, suffering one, into this affliction; I will love thee through it, and when My designs regarding thee are completed, I will show that the love which is from everlasting, is to everlasting."
Child of God! If there be a ripple now agitating the surface of the stream, trace it up to this fountain-head of love.