{"id":4141,"date":"2009-05-16T14:18:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T18:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/200\/?p=3"},"modified":"2009-05-16T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T18:18:12","slug":"the-unrelieved-quest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/05\/16\/the-unrelieved-quest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE UNRELIEVED QUEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Feed My sheep.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; John 21:17<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is love in the making. The love of God is tin-made, it is God&#8217;s<br \/>\nnature. When we receive the Holy Spirit He unites us with God so that<br \/>\nHis love is manifested in us. When the soul is united to God by the<br \/>\nindwelling Holy Spirit, that is not the end; the end is that we may<br \/>\nbe one with the Father as Jesus was. What kind of oneness had Jesus<br \/>\nChrist with the Father? Such a oneness that the Father sent Him down<br \/>\nhere to be spent for us, and He says &#8211; &#8220;As the Father hath sent Me,<br \/>\neven so send I you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peter realizes now with the revelation of the Lord&#8217;s hurting question<br \/>\nthat he does love Him; then comes the point &#8211; &#8220;Spend it out.&#8221; Don&#8217;t<br \/>\ntestify how much you love Me, don&#8217;t profess about the marvellous<br \/>\nrevelation you have had, but &#8211; &#8220;Feed My sheep.&#8221; And Jesus has some<br \/>\nextraordinarily funny sheep, some bedraggled, dirty sheep, some<br \/>\nawkward, butting sheep, some sheep that have gone astray! It is<br \/>\nimpossible to weary God&#8217;s love, and it is impossible to weary that<br \/>\nlove in me if it springs from the one centre. The love of God pays no<br \/>\nattention to the distinctions made by natural individuality. If I<br \/>\nlove my Lord I have no business to be guided by natural temperament;<br \/>\nI have to feed His sheep. There is no relief and no release from this<br \/>\ncommission. Beware of counterfeiting the love of God by working along<br \/>\nthe line of natural human sympathy, because that will end in<br \/>\nblaspheming the love of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feed My sheep. &#8212; John 21:17 This is love in the making. The love of God is tin-made, it is God&#8217;s nature. When we receive the Holy Spirit He unites us with God so that His love is manifested in us. When the soul is united to God by the indwelling Holy Spirit, that is&#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-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141","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=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}