The Daily Portion

Unto everyone that entereth into the house of the Lord, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses … for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness—II Chronicles 31:16, 18.

If the heart is truly filled with love, there is but one thing apparently that can keep it in utter distress and that is the refusal of the loved one to apprehend the intensity of the lover’s devotion, and his purpose to do good to the object of his affections. I know not what more can be told than you have already heard to express the infinite love of God, and to make you feel that the heart of the Eternal is most wondrously kind. The purposes of God towards His creatures are simply wrapped up in that one little word love and He can never be satisfied in the one yearning desire of His heart, to pour out upon men His infinite treasures, if they will but take according to their need.

What would satisfy you in your religion, if you wrote out a catalogue of everything which you felt you could desire or above all that you could ask or think? Would you not write down