{"id":5972,"date":"2021-03-15T23:41:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T23:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2021-03-15T23:41:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T23:41:51","slug":"%ef%bb%bfwhy-do-we-love-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5972","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffWhy do we love Him?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Why do we love Him?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spurgeon, \u201cTHE CHURCH\u2019S LOVE TO HER LOVING LORD\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because before this round earth ever was fashioned<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>between the palms of the great Creator- before he<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>had painted the rainbow, or hung out the lights of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the sun and moon, Christ\u2019s delights were with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He foresaw us and he knew what we should be-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and as he looked upon us, the glance was love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He delighted to sit upon the throne of glory, and to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>remember his dear ones who were yet to he born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the great prospect which his mighty and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>infinite spirit had- a joy that was set before him,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that he should see a multitude that no man could<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>number who should be his beloved forever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, if you know that Jesus had loved you from before<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>all worlds, you must love him. At least you will grant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>there cannot be a better reason for love than love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love demands; no, it does not demand- it takes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by almighty force, by irresistible energy, that heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>captive, upon whom it thus sets itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we love Him? Spurgeon, \u201cTHE CHURCH\u2019S LOVE TO HER LOVING LORD\u201d Because before this round earth ever was fashioned between the palms of the great Creator- before he had painted the rainbow, or hung out the lights of the sun and moon, Christ\u2019s delights were with us. He foresaw us and he knew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,71,72,68,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-believers-rule-of-life","category-christ-and-his-church","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","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=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}