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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

There can be no new thought in the mind of GOD. New thoughts, new feelings, new plans, new resolutions continually occur to OUR mind; for ours is but a poor, fallen, fickle, changeable nature. But God has no new thoughts, feelings, plans or resolutions; for if He had He would be a changeable Being, not one great, eternal, unchangeable ‘I Am’. All His thoughts, therefore, all His plans, all His ways are like Himself, eternal, infinite, unchanging, and unchangeable.

So it is with the love of Christ to the Church. It is eternal, unchanging, unchangeable. And why? Because He loved as God. Never let us lose sight of the glorious Deity of Jesus.

He loved her in eternity as the Son of God, prior to His incarnation. That was but the fruit of His love. We can, therefore, assign no beginning to the love of Christ, for it existed when He existed, which was from eternity. Neither can we put any end to that love, for it can only end with Himself; and as He had no beginning, so He has no ending. His love then is as Himself, which as it knew no beginning shall know no end.

O what a mercy it is for those who have any gracious, experimental knowledge of the love of Christ, to believe it is from everlasting to everlasting; that no incidents of time, no storms of sin or Satan, can ever change or alter that eternal love, but that it remains now and will remain the same to all eternity!

To the reader…

How changeable our hearts are! Does yours, too, change from day to day, so that today you hardly recognize what you thought you possessed yesterday, and are your thoughts, feelings and resolutions poor and fickle? I do not deny it; such is our nature. But do not let that persuade you that the Lord’s love is like that as well. He is the great, unchangeable I AM, and whom He loves, He loves with an everlasting love.

That is the rock beneath the feet of a tried and tempted soul. No assault of sin or Satan, no season of coldness or darkness, can make that love waver, for it knew no beginning and will know no end. Do you know anything of His having drawn you with lovingkindness? Then do not rest on your own frame of mind, but on Him Who remains the same. What wavers in you does not waver in Him.

With warm regards,
The compilers of jcphilpot.nl