{"id":784,"date":"2011-07-15T03:34:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T03:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=784"},"modified":"2011-07-15T03:34:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T03:34:58","slug":"%e2%80%9cyou-are-absolutely-beautiful-my-beloved-there-is-no-spot-in-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou are absolutely beautiful, My beloved! There is no spot in you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>\u201cYou are absolutely beautiful, My beloved!\u00a0<strong>There is no spot in you!<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Song%20of%20Solomon%204.7\">Song of Solomon 4:7<\/a>Having pronounced His Church positively full of beauty\u2014our Lord confirms His praise by a precious negative, \u201cThere is no spot in you!\u201d As if the thought occurred to the Bridegroom that the carping world would insinuate that He had only mentioned her lovely parts\u2014and had purposely omitted those features which were deformed or defiled\u2014He sums up all by declaring her universally and entirely lovely, and utterly devoid of stain.A spot may soon be removed, and is the very least thing that can disfigure beauty\u2014but even from this little blemish, the believer is delivered in his Lord\u2019s sight. If He had said there is no hideous scar, no horrible deformity, no repulsive ulcer\u2014we might even then have marveled. But when He testifies that she is free from the slightest spot\u2014all these other forms of defilement are included, and the height of wonder is increased.If He had but promised to remove all spots in heaven, we would have had eternal reason for joy. But when He speaks of it as already done\u2014who can restrain the most intense emotions of satisfaction and delight! O my soul, here is marrow and fatness for you; eat your full, and be satisfied with royal dainties!Christ Jesus has no quarrel with His spouse. She often wanders from Him, and grieves Him\u2014but He does not allow her faults to affect His love. He sometimes chides\u2014but it is always in the tenderest manner, with the kindest intentions\u2014it is \u201cMy love\u201d even then. There is no remembrance of our follies. He does not cherish ill thoughts of us\u2014but He pardons and loves as well after the offence\u2014as before it! It is well for us that it is so, for if Jesus were as mindful of injuries as we are\u2014how could He commune with us? Our precious Husband knows our silly hearts too well\u2014to take any offence at our follies and faults.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Charles Spurgeon.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou are absolutely beautiful, My beloved!\u00a0There is no spot in you!\u201d\u00a0Song of Solomon 4:7Having pronounced His Church positively full of beauty\u2014our Lord confirms His praise by a precious negative, \u201cThere is no spot in you!\u201d As if the thought occurred to the Bridegroom that the carping world would insinuate that He had only mentioned her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-gods-love","category-righteousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}