Apr 14
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Everlasting Love
Isaiah 54: 10: The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, says the Lord who has mercy on you.
[Believer] consider the love of God for you, as everlasting love. It never did, it never will, depart. Notwithstanding your fall in Adam, your depraved nature, your constant sins and departures, the love of God continues. He may veil for a little moment the light of His countenance, may chastise and afflict you for your revoltings and backslidings; still, having loved you once, He loves you to the end. Whatever else departs, His love never will. Wealth may leave you, health may fail you, friends may forsake you, and life itself expire; but God’s paternal love, and Christ’s fraternal sympathy, will never, never change.
The covenant of peace made with Christ, on your behalf, O my soul, sealed with His blood, even the “blood of the everlasting covenant,” which procured peace, speaks peace, and bequeaths peace, even “the peace of God which passes all understanding,” shall never be removed. The mountains of human strength, lofty and sun-gilded, the hills of creature good, clad with verdure, and smiling with fruit, shall be removed; the strongest, the loveliest, and the dearest, the first to die. But, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Amid the vicissitudes and changes of the present, the dying friends and revolving landscapes of life, cling, O my soul, to Him whose covenant never alters, whose kindness never changes; who, having loved you before all time, and loved you in all time, will love you to the end of all time—yes, when time shall be no longer. The Lord that has mercy upon you has said it.
Unconverted soul! the day will come when, if found out of Christ, you will cry to the mountains and to the rocks to cover you—but will cry in vain! Before His face of glory the heavens and the earth will flee away, and your soul will stand without a shelter or a hiding place. Escape for your life! There is one mountain, and one only, where you can find shelter from the wrath that is to come—it is Mount Calvary. Hidden there, the “Avenger of Blood” cannot reach you. No refuge but the cross—no fountain but the blood—no righteousness but Christ’s—no Savior but Jesus—will meet your case. “Him that comes unto Me I will in no way cast out.”
Octavius Winslow