Perfect Love

The following is adapted from The Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer.  A very special young lady has brought it to my attention this week and I include it to encourage and remind other Christians what love from God looks like.  And to challenge and warn unbelievers what it is not.

“Thou hast declared Thine unchanging love for us in Christ Jesus.  If nothing in us can win Thy love, nothing in the universe can prevent Thee from loving us.  Help us to believe the intensity, the eternity of the love that has found us.  Then love will cast out fear; and our troubled hearts will be at peace, trusting not in what we are but in what Thou hast declared Thyself to be.”

"Equating love with God (or saying that love defines God) is a major mistake which has produced much unsound religious philosophy and has brought forth a spate of vaporous poetry completely out of accord with the Holy Scriptures and altogether of another climate from that of historic Christianity.  Love is something true about God but it is not God.

God’s love has no beginning.  He is eternal; His love can have no end.  He is infinite; it has no limit.  He is holy so His love is the quintessence (look it up) of all spotless purity.  He is immense; His love is an incomprehensible vast, bottomless, shoreless sea before which we kneel in joyful silence and from which the loftiest eloquence retreats confused and abashed."

There is much more in this very short chapter but to just ruminate on that last paragraph alone just blows me away and helps me to remember why “perfect love casts out fear”.  And on the other side of the coin, the “spotless purity” of His love can NEVER wink at sin.  The blood of the perfect Lamb of God makes us pure, ushers us into the presence of this amazing, perfect love and keeps us eternally, without spot, in His presence.  Meditate and rest in “joyful silence” on a Love that secure!  And be warned, unbeliever, at the state of your soul before a Love that pure!  "Retreat!!  Be confused and abashed!"  But know there is hope in Christ!  Indeed!  He is our ONLY HOPE!!