Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the unconditional love that God has for humanity, as shown through Jesus Christ.
Charles Spurgeon conveys the idea that the divine love that was given to Christ is also extended to all individuals, affirming that each person is valued and loved by God. This message encourages believers to embrace their worth and the love that encompasses them, highlighting the relationship between divinity and humanity.
In practice
A pastor sharing this quote during a sermon about God's love.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.
Those who love each other shall become invincible.
So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into your foolishness?' 'Love,' he explained. She looked at him with eyes the blue of the sky. 'I hope you choke on it,' she said, flatly.
sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.
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