ECHO

"We love Him because He first loved us." Love is like an echo, it returns what it receives. ---- Thomas Manton

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins (I John 4:8-10).

We love Him because He first loved us (I John4:19).  

A hymn to read, sing, hum, or whistle, to the glory of God: Let Thy Blood in Mercy Poured. -- Greek Hymn.

MEDITATION

What is the reason there is so much preaching and so little practice? For want of meditation... Constant thoughts are operative, and musing makes the fire burn. Green wood is not kindled by a flash or spark, but by constant blowing. ---- Thomas Manton.

This Book of the Law shall  not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success (Joshua 1:8).

A hymn to read, sing, hum, or whistle,to the glory of God:  O Christ, Our Hope, Our Heart's Desire(Latin hymn, 7th. or 8th. century).

Humility

Good morning!

Humility. The best of God's people have abhorred themselves. Like the spire of a steeple, we are least at the highest. ---- Thomas Manton

How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in His eyes; how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!" (Job 25:2-6).

Have this mind among yourselves, which is ours in Christ Jesus, who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human fashion, he humbled himself,  becoming obedient to the point of death (Philippians 2:5-8). 

A hymn to read, sing, whistle or hum to the glory of God: HAVE THINE OWN WAY, LORD.