{"id":2505,"date":"2013-06-01T05:24:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T05:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2013-06-01T05:24:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T05:24:08","slug":"the-ocean-of-divine-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2505","title":{"rendered":"The ocean of Divine love!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The ocean of Divine love!<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><em>(by Octavius Winslow) <\/em><br \/>\nThe love of God to His people was as eternal \u00a0as the eternity of His  being, as everlasting as His uncreated nature. \u201cI have loved you with an  everlasting love.\u201d It panted, it yearned for an outlet. It sought and  found it in Christ. \u00a0Nowhere in the heavens above, or in the earth  beneath, or in the waters under the earth; no star, no flower, no  creature, so reveals, expresses, and embodies the love of God as the  gift of His dear Son to die for our sins! \u00a0Oh, what love is this! \u00a0\u201dGod  so loved the world!\u201d \u00a0So loved, that He gave Jesus!<br \/>\nJesus is the most precious exponent of God\u2019s love: Jesus descends from  the bosom of His \u00a0love; Jesus draws aside the veil of His love; Jesus is  God\u2019s love expressed, God\u2019s love incarnate, God\u2019s love speaking,  laboring, dying, redeeming! Beyond this it would seem impossible that  love could go.<br \/>\nJesus is the channel through which <strong>the ocean \u00a0of Divine love<\/strong> washed the shores of this earth, its soul healing waves spreading like a  sea of life over our sin tainted, curse blighted, sorrow stricken  humanity.<br \/>\nOh, let every affection of our heart, every faculty of our soul, every  power of our mind, every action of our life, embody as its grateful  response the words of the adoring apostle, \u201cThanks be unto God for His  unspeakable Gift!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ocean of Divine love! (by Octavius Winslow) The love of God to His people was as eternal \u00a0as the eternity of His being, as everlasting as His uncreated nature. \u201cI have loved you with an everlasting love.\u201d It panted, it yearned for an outlet. It sought and found it in Christ. \u00a0Nowhere in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","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=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}