{"id":6595,"date":"2024-04-17T23:03:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T23:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6595"},"modified":"2024-04-17T23:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T23:03:44","slug":"the-ocean-of-divine-love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6595","title":{"rendered":"The ocean of Divine love!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The ocean of Divine love!<\/strong><em>(by Octavius Winslow)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The love of God to His people was as eternal<br>as the eternity of His being, as everlasting as<br>His uncreated nature. \u201cI have loved you with<br>an everlasting love.\u201d It panted, it yearned for<br>an outlet. It sought and found it in Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowhere in the heavens above, or in the<br>earth beneath, or in the waters under the<br>earth; no star, no flower, no creature, so<br>reveals, expresses, and embodies the love<br>of God as the gift of His dear Son to die<br>for our sins!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, what love is this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGod so loved the world!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So loved, that He gave Jesus!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus is the most precious exponent of God\u2019s<br>love: Jesus descends from the bosom of His<br>love; Jesus draws aside the veil of His love;<br>Jesus is God\u2019s love expressed, God\u2019s love<br>incarnate, God\u2019s love speaking, laboring,<br>dying, redeeming! Beyond this it would<br>seem impossible that love could go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus is the channel through which&nbsp;<strong>the ocean<br>of Divine love<\/strong>&nbsp;washed the shores of this earth,<br>its soul healing waves spreading like a sea of<br>life over our sin tainted, curse blighted, sorrow<br>stricken humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, let every affection of our heart, every<br>faculty of our soul, every power of our mind,<br>every action of our life, embody as its grateful<br>response the words of the adoring apostle,<br>\u201cThanks be unto God for His unspeakable Gift!\u201d<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ocean of Divine love!(by Octavius Winslow) The love of God to His people was as eternalas the eternity of His being, as everlasting asHis uncreated nature. \u201cI have loved you withan everlasting love.\u201d It panted, it yearned foran outlet. It sought and found it in Christ. Nowhere in the heavens above, or in theearth [&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-6595","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\/6595","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=6595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6596,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions\/6596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}