"356-From Anger to Love
"He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." (Micah 7:19)
God never turns from His love, but He soon turns from His wrath. His love to His chosen is according to His nature; His anger is only according to His office. He loves because He is love; He frowns because it is necessary for our good. He will come back to the place in which His heart rests, namely, His love to His own, and then He will take pity upon our griefs and end them..."
Monday, December 21, 2009
356-From Anger to Love
God can be angry with the objects of His eternal love because love and anger are not the same dispositon in opposite directions. Spurgeon brought up their differences in his Faith check-bk. :
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Commentary on Dec 8 M daily light.
MORNING DECEMBER 8 Commentary
God is love - so declares the Holy Scriptures. Therefore we can expect godly people to be to have love. True love is not about pleasing everyone we meet. True love is about activities which promote the praise and glory of God And God is good and truth. If we love truly, our lives would promote that which is good and truth. Thus we, Christians, by ".. love serve one another." (Gal. 5:13)
It is burdensome when people walk contrary to God. True love unites us to God and lift up our burden. "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ." (Gal. 6:1,2) if you are strong and spiritual you should know what to do to one another.
To love is to seek the conversion and salvation from errors and sins of each other. "Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins." (Jas 5:19,20) How good it is that this world has less sins because of love.
Saved people are called by God to love and to save fervently. "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently." (I Pet. 1:22) As such, Christians are debtors when they fail to love. "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law." (Rom. 13:8)
Love is to be able to feel for others and to seek their honour, even above our own. "Be kindly affectioned one to another in brotherly love; in honour preferring one another." (Rom. 12:10)
To love calls for humility as the proud seeks their own and are resisted by God. I "Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble." (I Pet 5:5)
Do we truly love one another? "We ... that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves." (Rom. 15:1)
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