Psalm One Thirty Nine

“When we see this love at work though the heart of Hosea, we may wonder if God is really like that. But everything in the Word and though experience shows us that He is. He will gave man the trees of the forest and iron in the ground. Then he will give to man the brains to make an axe from the iron to cut down a tree and fashion it into a cross. He will give man the ability to make hammer and nails, and when man has the cross and the hammer and the nails, the Lord will allow man to take hold of Him and bring Him to that cross; He will stretch out His hands upon it and will allow man to nail to Him to that cross, and in so doing will take the sins of man upon Himself and make it possible for those who have despised and rejected Him to come unto Him and know the joy of sins removed and forgiven, to know the assurance of pardon and eternal life, and to enter into the prospect of the hope of glory with Him forever. This is our God, and there is none like Him.” Donald Gray Barnhouse