God’s Infinite Love
Posted by jerrywhite on Jul 4, 2010
“A mother’s love is the fullest love that we have on earth. She loves with all her heart. But there is no love as full as that of God toward His Son. God loves Jesus fully. The whole heart of the Father is, as it were, continually poured down in love on the Lord Jesus. There is nothing in Christ except what draws the infinite love of God. In Him, God sees His own image perfect, His own law acted out, His own will done. The Father loves the Son fully; but when a soul comes into Christ, the same love rests on that soul: ‘that the love with which You loved Me may be in them’ (John 17:26).
True, a creature cannot receive God’s love as Jesus can, but it is the same love that shines on us and Him—full, satisfying, unbounded love. When the sun pours down its beams on the wide ocean and on a little flower at the same time, the same sunshine is poured into both, although the ocean has a vastly larger capacity to receive its glorious beams. So it is the same love that pours down on the Savior and the sinner, although Jesus is able to contain more.
How can God forget what He fully loves? If God fully loves you, He has not forgotten you; He can’t forget you. A creature’s love may fail, because what is a creature? A clay vessel, a breath of wind that passes away and doesn’t return. But the Creator’s love can’t fail; it is full of love toward an object infinitely worthy of His love, in which you share.”
The Best of Robert Murray McCheyne, 59-60
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For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
John 16:27 (ESV)
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To be in Christ places one in the Father’s love like a bird flying in the air or a fish swimming in the sea or the earth floating in the expanse of the universe. His infinite love is your dwelling place to enjoy–forever.
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God’s Profound Love
Posted by jerrywhite on Mar 8, 2010
“To come to see that God’s love is a deep, warm love—a love constantly lavished on us quite irrespective of our merits, a love that cost the cross—is to reach a turning point. It is impossible to experience this love and remain unchanged. A man may respond to it with all his being, saying in effect, ‘This is tremendous. Deep down this is what I have always wanted.’ He will then open his heart to God’s love and respond with an answering love. On the other hand he may reject this self-sacrificing love, thus joining the succession of those who put Christ on the cross. What he cannot do is remain neutral. Attempting to remain neutral in the face of such love is itself a rejection, for love like this cries out to be received.”
Leon Morris
Testaments of Love, 165
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Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
Psalm 143:8 (ESV)
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God’s love for you is not one of toleration but of tender compassion. You may struggle with believing that God loves you because you keep on discovering ugliness in your self-life. You keep stumbling in your daily walk and wonder how God could really love you when you fail so often. You may have become disgusted with yourself and thought that God must feel the same way about you. God has known perfectly the worst about you, ugliness that you have not yet discovered about yourself, and for reasons He never explains He set His love upon you for all eternity. His love is patient and kind forever. His love always extends forgiveness with longsuffering towards you. His steadfast love never fails. God wants you to receive His unexplainable love in your unworthy state and thank Him for it with a worshiping heart.
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Unworthy But Loved
Posted by jerrywhite on Feb 17, 2010
God’s love for you has nothing to do with your behavior. Nothing in you causes God to love you more, and nothing in you causes God to love you less. He is love like light is transparent and the sun is hot. It is His unchanging nature, which nothing about you can alter. God loves you with His entire being, and never does He cease loving you. Knowing perfectly everything about you, He steadfastly loves you. Heart revelation of God’s magnificent love for you ushers in deeper joy, peace, and love for others. Believe this profound Biblical truth that God loves you with infinite unchanging love and ask your Heavenly Father to make it real to your heart by His Spirit. Repeatedly thank Him for His steadfast love for you. Deep assurance may not come to you like a flash of lightning but rather like a rising flood. Nevertheless because the Lord Jesus is absolutely faithful it will surely come with deep awareness and bathe your needy soul.
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“Two things about God’s love are repeatedly emphasized: it is constant, and it is exercised despite the fact that the people God loves are so unworthy. This is great comfort to God’s people. Of course, they must be constantly vigilant in their efforts to avoid evil and to do things that please God. But they need not fear that when they slip into sin God will cease to love them. He will not. His love never wavers, never ceases.”
Leon Morris
Testaments of Love, 100
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I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
Jeremiah 31:3 (ESV)
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A Savior Born
Posted by jerrywhite on Dec 24, 2009
Let the stable still astonish:
Straw—dirt floor, dull eyes,
Dusty flanks of donkeys, oxen;
Crumbling, crooked walls;
No bed to carry that pain,
And then, the child,
Rag-wrapped, laid to cry
In a trough.
Who would have chosen this?
Who would have said, “Yes,
Let the God of all the heavens
And earth
Be born here, in this place?”
Who but the same God
Who stands in the darker, fouler rooms
Of our hearts and says, “Yes, let the God
Of Heaven and Earth be born here—
In this place.”
Leslie Leyland Fields
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That the Creator Himself would be born as a creature in a stable is astonishing, but that He would actually come to live inside His followers by His Spirit is incomprehensible. That the Lord Jesus is all the fullness of God in a body is unfathomable, but that we as His believers have this very same fullness in Him is staggering (Colossians 2:9-10). What difference would it make to us if we really believed that we have all of His fullness in our very selves—that we are literally the temple of His Holy Spirit—that He is truly closer to us than our own breath—that we are as one with the Lord Jesus as He is with His Father? For this miraculous Gift I praise you, O God! I receive it with deep thankfulness. I marvel at how You love me!
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The Deep, Deep Love of Jesus
Posted by jerrywhite on Nov 16, 2009
“Once I was in the presence of a man who prayed, ‘Lord, thank you for putting up with us.’ ‘No! No!’ I silently cried. ‘That’s not the way he is toward us.’ He paid a measureless price to cleanse us of all sin and to give us his very own perfect righteousness as an infinitely gracious gift. He doesn’t just put up with us, endure or tolerate us as a weary mother does an untrained child. The work of Christ is so complete and perfect that our Father is able to delight in us and love us just as he loves his own Son. Jesus said, ‘As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you’ (John 15:9). Psalm 103:11 assures us, ‘For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him.’ This wonderful state is not based upon what we have done or can do but solely upon what God the Father is and has done for us through Jesus. We cannot add anything by our own effort, nor can we subtract from it by failure. This is forever settled for us as his precious children whom he loves. Psalm 86:5 wonderfully declares, ‘You are forgiving and good, oh Lord, abounding in love to all who call to you.’ These words should stir all hearts with gladness, wonder, and love.”
Author
Fellowship With God, 24-25.
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O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free;
Rolling as a mighty ocean
In its fullness over me,
Underneath me, all around me,
Leading onward, leading homeward,
To my glorious rest above.
S. T. Francis
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