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The Bridge Love Built, January 6
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent
his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:10
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God’s love for the world was not manifest because He sent His Son,
but because He loved the world He sent His Son into the world that divinity
clothed with humanity might touch humanity, while divinity lays hold of
divinity. Though sin had produced a gulf between man and his God, a
divine benevolence provided a plan to bridge that gulf. And what material
did He use? A part of Himself. The brightness of the Father’s glory came
to a world all seared and marred with the curse, and in His own divine
character, in His own divine body, bridged the gulf.... The windows of
heaven were opened and the showers of heavenly grace in healing streams
came to our benighted world....
Had God given us less we could not have been saved. But He gave
to our world so abundantly that it could not be said that He could love
us more. Then how foolish is the position taken that there is to be a
second probation after the first is exhausted. God has exhausted His
benevolence ... in pouring out all heaven to man in one great gift. Only in
comprehending the value of this offering can we comprehend infinity. O
the breadth and height and depth of the love of God! Who of finite beings
can comprehend it? ...
God claims the whole of the affections of man, the whole heart, the
whole soul, the whole mind, the whole strength. He lays claim to all that
there is of man, because He has poured out the whole treasure of heaven
by giving us His all at once, reserving nothing greater that heaven can
do....
When I commence writing on this subject, I go on and on, and try to
get beyond the outer edge, but I fail. When we shall reach the mansions
above, Jesus will Himself lead the white-robed ones, made white in the
blood of the Lamb, to the Father. “Therefore are they before the throne of
God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the
throne shall dwell among them.”
Revelation 7:15
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