(From Octavius Winslow\u2019s, \u201cChrist, the Everlasting Father\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The everlasting love of Christ never veers, never<\/p>\n\n\n\n
chills, and knows not the shadow of a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Measuring Christ\u2019s love to us by our love to Him,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
we often imagine that it must necessarily be<\/p>\n\n\n\n
affected by the cold, chilling atmosphere of our<\/p>\n\n\n\n
hearts; that when our love to Him ebbs, His love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to us also ebbs; that when ours proves fickle<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and treacherous, wandering after some creature<\/p>\n\n\n\n
idol, then His love, exacting reprisals, in like<\/p>\n\n\n\n
manner starts off, and leaves us for another<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and perhaps more faithful object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No! the love of Jesus to His saints, is as eternal<\/p>\n\n\n\n
as His being, is as unchangeable as His nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWho shall separate us from the love of Christ?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yield not, then, to despondency, beloved, when<\/p>\n\n\n\n
you discover the mercury of your love sink, even<\/p>\n\n\n\n
though it be to freezing point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There may be times when you can scarcely<\/p>\n\n\n\n
detect its existence, so faint its beating pulse,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
so congealed its warm current.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But since Christ\u2019s love is not the effect, but the<\/p>\n\n\n\n
cause of ours to Him, and is an everlasting love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
glowing in His heart ages that cannot be numbered<\/p>\n\n\n\n
or measured, before one pulse throbbed in ours;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
we may take comfort in the assurance that no<\/p>\n\n\n\n
variation of affection in us towards the Savior<\/p>\n\n\n\n
can in the slightest degree affect the tenderness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
depth, or immutability of the great love with<\/p>\n\n\n\n
which He has loved us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Look, then, to Christ\u2019s love to you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and not to your love to Christ!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Go and lay your icy heart upon His flaming<\/p>\n\n\n\n
heart of love! Go to His cross, and there muse<\/p>\n\n\n\n
upon the love that bore your sins, that suffered<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and bled, that wept, and groaned, and died for you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
paying the death penalty of your transgressions;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and, while you thus muse, the flame will kindle,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the fire will burn, and your tongue will break forth<\/p>\n\n\n\n
into singing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the<\/p>\n\n\n\n
middle wall of partition between us.\u201d Ephes. 2:14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(From Octavius Winslow\u2019s, \u201cChrist, the Everlasting Father\u201d) The everlasting love of Christ never veers, never chills, and knows not the shadow of a change. Measuring Christ\u2019s love to us by our love to Him, we often imagine that it must necessarily be affected by the cold, chilling atmosphere of our hearts; that when our love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,35,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-gods-attributes","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622","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=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5623,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/5623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}