Spurgeon Meditations

 

The love of the Lord.

Hos 3 1

Believer look back through all thine experience and think of the way whereby the Lord thy God has led thee in the wilderness and how He hath fed and clothed thee every day--how He hath borne with thine ill manners--how He hath put up with all thy murmurings and all thy longings after the flesh-pots of Egypt--how He has opened the rock to supply thee and fed thee with manna that came down from heaven. Think of how His grace has been sufficient for thee in all thy troubles--how His blood has been a pardon to thee in all thy sins--how His rod and His staff have comforted thee. When thou hast thus looked back upon the love of the Lord then let faith survey His love in the future for remember that Christ's covenant and blood have something more in them than the past. He who has loved thee and pardoned thee shall never cease to love and pardon. He is Alpha and He shall be Omega also: He is first and He shall be last. Therefore bethink thee when thou shalt pass through the valley of the shadow of death thou needest fear no evil for He is with thee. When thou shalt stand in the cold floods of Jordan thou needest not fear for death cannot separate thee from His love; and when thou shalt come into the mysteries of eternity thou needest not tremble For I am persuaded, thatneither death; nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, norpowers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nordepth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us fromthe love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Now soul is not thy love refreshed? Does not this make thee love Jesus? Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord thy God? Surely as we meditate on "the love of the Lord our hearts burn within us, and we long to love Him more.% 02/05/AM The Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world." --1 John 4:14 It is a sweet thought that Jesus Christ did not come forth without His Father's permission authority consent and assistance. He was sent of the Father that He might be the Saviour of men. We are too apt to forget that while there are distinctions as to the persons in the Trinity there are no distinctions of honour. We too frequently ascribe the honour of our salvation or at least the depths of its benevolence more to Jesus Christ than we do the Father. This is a very great mistake. What if Jesus came? Did not His Father send Him? If He spake wondrously did not His Father pour grace into His lips that He might be an able minister of the new covenant? He who knoweth the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost as he should know them never setteth one before another in his love; he sees them at Bethlehem at Gethsemane and on Calvary all equally engaged in the work of salvation. O Christian hast thou put thy confidence in the Man Christ Jesus? Hast thou placed thy reliance solely on Him? And art thou united with Him? Then believe that thou art united unto the God of heaven. Since to the Man Christ Jesus thou art brother and holdest closest fellowship thou art linked thereby with God the Eternal and the Ancient of days is thy Father and thy friend. Didst thou ever consider the depth of love in the heart of Jehovah when God the Father equipped His Son for the great enterprise of mercy? If not be this thy day's meditation. The Father sent Him! Contemplate that subject. Think how Jesus works what the Father wills. In the wounds of the dying Saviour see the love of the great I AM. Let every thought of Jesus be also connected with the Eternal ever-blessed God for "It pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief."


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