Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that Christ's sacrifice is a demonstration of God's inherent love rather than a means to create it.
Charles Spurgeon's quote underscores the belief that the love of God is intrinsic and eternal, and that Christ's death was an expression of this love rather than a catalyst for it. It suggests that the act of atonement was a reflection of God's heart and character, demonstrating how deeply He cares for humanity.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a church service to illustrate the nature of God's love.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we have. In the gap, we experience loneliness. It's distinct from the objective state of isolation, which is determined by the number of people around you.
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of rendering himself either useful or agreeable, he might very naturally expect that the diligence and fidelity of a few years would be rewarded with the inestimable gift of freedom.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
My continent knows more about me than I do myself.
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