{"id":1311,"date":"2011-09-24T05:48:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T05:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2011-09-24T05:48:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T05:48:46","slug":"because-he-loves-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1311","title":{"rendered":"Because He loves you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Because He loves you&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Spurgeon&#8217;s sermon, &#8220;CHASTISEMENT&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When God afflicts his child, the chastisement is applied in love,<br \/>\nand his strokes are, all of them, put there by the hand of love.<\/p>\n<p>The rod has been baptized in deep affection before it is laid on<br \/>\nthe believer\u2019s back. God does not afflict willingly, nor grieve us<br \/>\nfor nothing, but out of love and affection, because he perceives<br \/>\nthat if he leaves us unchastised, we shall bring upon ourselves<br \/>\nmisery ten thousand-fold greater than we shall suffer by his slight rebukes, and the gentle blows of his hand.<\/p>\n<p>He is chastising you, not punishing you; he is correcting you in measure, he is not smiting you in wrath. There is no hot displeasure in his heart.<br \/>\nEven though his brow may be ruffled, there is no anger in his breast; even though his eye may have closed upon you, he does not hate you- he loves you still. It is simply because he loves you, because you are sons, that he therefore chastises you.<\/p>\n<p>Bend meekly down before his superior wisdom, and say-<br \/>\n\u201cO God I believe that in the darkness you are brewing light,<br \/>\nthat in the storm-clouds you are gathering sunshine,<br \/>\nthat in the deep mines you are fashioning diamonds,<br \/>\nand in the beds of the sea you are making pearls.<br \/>\nI believe that however unfathomable may be your designs,<br \/>\nyet they have a bottom. Though it is in the whirlwind and in<br \/>\nthe storm, you have a way, and that way is good and righteous<br \/>\naltogether. I would not have you alter one atom of your<br \/>\ndispensations, it shall be just as you will. I bow before you,<br \/>\nand I give my ignorance the command to hold its tongue,<br \/>\nand to be silenced while your wisdom speaks words of right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because He loves you&#8230; From Spurgeon&#8217;s sermon, &#8220;CHASTISEMENT&#8221; When God afflicts his child, the chastisement is applied in love, and his strokes are, all of them, put there by the hand of love. The rod has been baptized in deep affection before it is laid on the believer\u2019s back. God does not afflict willingly, nor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,35,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-gods-attributes","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}