The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. (Jeremiah 31:3)

Between that great heart in heaven and this poor throbbing aching heart of flesh on earth there is love established—love of the dearest, truest, sweetest, and most faithful kind.

In fact the love of woman, the mother’s love, the love of a spouse—these are but the water, but the love of God is the wine, these are but the things of the earth, but the love of God is the celestial.

The mother’s love mirrors the love of God, as the dewdrop mirrors the sun; but as the dewdrop compasses not that mighty orb, so no love that beats in the human bosom can ever compass, as no words can express the height, depth, length, and breadth of the love of God, which is in Christ our Lord.

“Yea, I have loved thee.” Oh, come near then, Christian. Your Father, he who chastened you yesterday, loves you; he whom you forget so often, and against whom you have offended so constatntly, yet loves you.

You know what it is to love. Translate the love you bear to your dearest friend, and look at it and say, :God loves me better than this.” He took your sins, your sorrows, your death, your grave.

All that you might be pardoned, accepted, and received into divine favor and so might live and be blessed forevermore.

Charles Spurgeon

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Endnotes:

[1] Charles Spurgeon, At the Master’s Feet [Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005], March 7.

See also:

SATAN’S STRATEGY AGAINST YOU

APOSTASY LEADS TO DIVISION

WHY AREN’T MORE CHRISTIANS PROVOKED?