“Wasn’t it wonderful love that could love an ugly old woman like me?”
There she stood at her cottage door, and without doubt she was an ugly old woman.
Not only had old age wrinkled her face and bent her body, but a life of sin had left its scars upon her, and altogether she looked as if she deserved the unenviable reputation she bore of being the ugliest old woman in all that country side.
She had just been told this-told it with the idea of raising her quick temper-told it because she was known to be newly converted to God-told it by one who hated God!
“You’re the ugliest old woman I’ve ever set eyes on,” was the rough and cruel taunt.
But, ah, it produced a different effect to what was intended. Instead of her eyes flashing with wrath they filled with tears; her heart melted as she thought of her Savior’s love; and ugly though she was, the moral beauty of the grace of Jesus shone out in her reply as with a voice trembling with emotion she cried, “Wasn’t it wonderful love that could love an ugly old woman like me?”
Wonderful? Yes, wonderful love!
Wonderful love that could fasten itself on such wretched sinners as we: we who had nothing lovable in us—nothing to excite and to draw forth the love wherewith we are loved.
Wonderful love! The love of God is like God Himself-unsearchable. It is self-moved; it finds its source in the heart of God.
Wonderful love! “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,” is the greatest mystery inside the Bible or out of it! None can unravel it; but, thank God, the youngest, the weakest, the vilest of Adam’s fallen race can look to the cross and see, believe, and adore!
Wonderful love! Do you know and enjoy it? Are its warm sunny beams shed abroad in your heart?. Is the love of Jesus a reality to you? If not, oh then be wise, and before it is too late—before you are shut out in the blackness of darkness forever—before the chilly shades of eternal night wrap themselves around your soul-believe in the love of God toward us.
“In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” 1 John 4:9, 109In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:9‑10).
Wonderful love!
“Oh, ’twas love, ’twas wonderful love!
The love of God to me;
It brought my Savior from above,
To die on Calvary.”