The love of God to His people was as eternal as the eternity of His being, as everlasting as
His uncreated nature. "I have loved you with
an everlasting love." It panted, it yearned for
an outlet. It sought and found it in Christ.
Nowhere in the heavens above, or in the
earth beneath, or in the waters under the
earth; no star, no flower, no creature, so
reveals, expresses, and embodies the love
of God as the gift of His dear Son to die
for our sins!
Oh, what love is this!
"God so loved the world!"
So loved, that He gave Jesus!
Jesus is the most precious exponent of God's
love: Jesus descends from the bosom of His
love; Jesus draws aside the veil of His love;
Jesus is God's love expressed, God's love
incarnate, God's love speaking, laboring,
dying, redeeming! Beyond this it would
seem impossible that love could go.
Jesus is the channel through which the
of
its soul healing waves spreading like a sea of
life over our sin tainted, curse blighted, sorrow
stricken humanity.
Oh, let every affection of our heart, every
faculty of our soul, every power of our mind,
every action of our life, embody as its grateful
response the words of the adoring apostle,
"Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable Gift!"
Octavius Winslow (1808-1878)
