{"id":4326,"date":"2009-04-21T18:31:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=101"},"modified":"2009-04-21T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T22:31:13","slug":"the-undeviating-question-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/04\/21\/the-undeviating-question-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE UNDEVIATING QUESTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Lovest thou Me?<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; John 21:17<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Peter declares nothing now (cf. Matthew 26:33-35). Natural<br \/>\nindividuality professes and declares; the love of the personality is<br \/>\nonly discovered by the hurt of the question of Jesus Christ. Peter<br \/>\nloved Jesus in the way in which any natural man loves a good man.<br \/>\nThat is temperamental love; it may go deep into the individuality,<br \/>\nbut it does not touch the centre of the person. True love never<br \/>\nprofesses anything. Jesus said &#8211; &#8220;Whosoever shall confess Me before<br \/>\nmen,&#8221; i.e., confess his love not merely by his words, but by<br \/>\neverything he does.<\/p>\n<p>Unless we get hurt right out of every deception about ourselves, the<br \/>\nword of God is not having its way with us. The word of God hurts as<br \/>\nno sin can ever hurt, because sin blunts feeling. The question of the<br \/>\nLord intensifies feeling, until to be hurt by Jesus is the most<br \/>\nexquisite hurt conceivable. It hurts not only in the natural way but<br \/>\nin the profound personal way. The word of the Lord pierces even to<br \/>\nthe dividing asunder of soul and spirit, there is no deception left.<br \/>\nThere is no possibility of being sentimental with the Lord&#8217;s<br \/>\nquestion; you cannot say nice things when the Lord speaks directly to<br \/>\nyou, the hurt is too terrific. It is such a hurt that it stings every<br \/>\nother concern out of account. There never can be any mistake about<br \/>\nthe hurt of the Lord&#8217;s word when it comes to His child; but the point<br \/>\nof the hurt is the great point of revelation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovest thou Me? &#8212; John 21:17 Peter declares nothing now (cf. Matthew 26:33-35). Natural individuality professes and declares; the love of the personality is only discovered by the hurt of the question of Jesus Christ. Peter loved Jesus in the way in which any natural man loves a good man. That is temperamental love; it&#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-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","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=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}