{"id":924,"date":"2011-07-15T07:21:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T07:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=924"},"modified":"2011-07-16T10:47:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T10:47:31","slug":"the-love-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"The love of God!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The love of God!
\n<\/strong>
\nSpurgeon, \u201cThe Love of God and the Patience of Christ\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMay the Lord direct your hearts
\ninto\u00a0the love of God<\/strong>\u2026\u201d\u00a02 Thes. 3:5<\/a><\/p>\n

Believer, God loves you as much as if there were nobody else in all the world to love!
\nGod can pour the infinite love of His heart upon one object and yet, for all that, can
\nlove ten thousand times ten thousand of His creatures just as much. Your Father loves each child as if He had no other! Peer into this abyss of love! Plunge into this sea! Dive into this depth unsearchable! Oh, that God might direct you into theimmeasurable greatness of this love!
\nEnter into this love by remembering its antiquity. Some fight the great truth of the eternal electing love of God. But to me it is as wafers made with honey. What music lies in that sentence, \u201cYes,
\nI have loved you with an everlasting love!\u201d When this great world, the sun, and moon and stars, had not yet flashed the morning of their little day, the Lord Jehovah loved His people with an everlasting love. In the Divine purposes, before the Lord created the heavens and the earth, God loved His own people. He had chosen you, thought of you, provided for you and made ten thousand forecasts of
\nloving kindness towards you before the earth was. \u00a0Beloved believer, you were engraved on the hands of Christ even then! Oh that the Lord would direct you into the antiquity of His love. It shall make you greatly prize that love to think that it had no beginning and shall never, never have an end.
\nAgain, think of the love of God as to its infallible constancy. The unchangeable Jehovah never ceases to love His people. \u00a0The love of God abides forever the same. Since you have known Him He has never varied in His love to you. When your love has grown cold He has loved you. When you have grown cruel He has loved you. \u00a0You have grievously provoked Him till He has taken down His rod and made you smart. But He has loved you in the smiting. With God there is as much love in chastening as in caressing. \u00a0He never abates in fervor towards His ancient friends. \u00a0He has said, \u201cI am the Lord. I change not. Therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.\u201d \u00a0I ask the Lord to direct us into the immutability of His Divine love, for this is a great medicine inthe day of soul trouble. Whatever condition you may be in, the Lord is still active in love towards you. All true love goes towards purification. And the true love of God goes that way with an invincible current that can never
\nbe turned aside. O believer, your God loves you so well that He will not let a darling sin stay in your heart. He loves you so strongly that He will not spare any iniquity in you. \u00a0The knowledge of His love will make your heart as sweet and aromatic as a chamber in which a box of precious ointment has
\nbeen broken. \u00a0Oh, that you might be led into the innermost secret of the Lord\u2019s love till it shall saturate you, influence you, take possession of you, carry you away! \u00a0Beloved, let\u00a0the love of God<\/strong> to you flow into your hearts and abide there until it settles down and bears on its surface the cream
\nof love to God, yielded by your own heart. \u00a0The only way to love God is to let God\u2019s love to you dwell in your soul until it transforms your soul into itself. \u00a0Love to God grows out of the love of God.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay the Lord direct your hearts into\u00a0the love of God<\/strong>\u2026\u201d\u00a02 Thes. 3:5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The love of God! Spurgeon, \u201cThe Love of God and the Patience of Christ\u201d \u201cMay the Lord direct your hearts into\u00a0the love of God\u2026\u201d\u00a02 Thes. 3:5 Believer, God loves you as much as if there were nobody else in all the world to love! God can pour the infinite love of His heart upon one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,41,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-the-eternal-covenant","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","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=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}