Though you have not seen him, you love him.
—1 Peter 1:8
In The Changed Life, Henry Drummond wrote about a lady of exemplary character and radiant personality whose attire always included her locket necklace. Everyone was curious about whose picture the locket encased but courteously refrained from asking.
Only after her passing was the secret revealed, when the relative to whom she willed the locket opened it and discovered the source of the dear lady’s beautiful life. It wasn’t a picture, but a statement: “Whom having not seen, I love.”
Peter wrote, “Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls” (1 Pt 1:8–9).
O how I love Jesus,
because he first loved me.