{"id":2213,"date":"2007-04-19T15:41:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T19:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/compassionate-love-of-god"},"modified":"2007-04-19T15:41:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T19:41:16","slug":"compassionate-love-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2007\/04\/19\/compassionate-love-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassionate Love of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks be to God, this applies to the church no less than to the individual. The Christian church<br \/>\nbinds up and heals the wounds of humanity, not in the sign of benevolence considered by itself,<br \/>\nbut in the sign of a compassion into which the love of God has but the tenderest tenderness of its<br \/>\ntouch. Because it was love that inspired Jehovah&#8217;s kindness to Israel, there was no limit set to the<br \/>\nstore of pardon and salvation. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As often as I speak against Ephraim I remember him still; therefore<br \/>\nmy heart yearneth for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah&#8221;  (31:20). This gives the<br \/>\nassurance that though the dreadful sword might again and again claim its harvest, Jehovah would<br \/>\nmake an absolute end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> This inclusion of Ephraim amongst the objects of lovingkindness is, perhaps,<br \/>\nthe most touching trait in the entire prophecy. For Ephraim seemed to have been carried by the<br \/>\njudgments of the past beyond every reach of hope and salvation; he had been lost, as it were, in the<br \/>\nbackward sweep of the terrible years: of what possible use could be to Ephraim mercy and kindness?<br \/>\nBut everlasting love, by reason of its eternity, surmounts even this. Like the vastness of heaven it<br \/>\nencircles all the ceaseless change and attrition of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks be to God, this applies to the church no less than to the individual. The Christian church binds up and heals the wounds of humanity, not in the sign of benevolence considered by itself, but in the sign of a compassion into which the love of God has but the tenderest tenderness of its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}