Friday, April 17, 2015

Gods unfailing love
Gods love is both an eternal love and a condescending love. God loves us eternally because His love is in Himself. God does not need any other love to complete His eternal love. When we are loved by God eternally we are foreseen from eternity past by God as being connected by Him in perfect dependence. Whatever separation we experience in this life is seen by God as our inability to apprehend this perfect love. When the Psalmist is praising God for His unfailing love, he is saying that God has gifted him with the laws, decrees, promises and covenants that he speaks in prayer as the basis of his appeal to God , in every situation and for everything. God erases the consequences of the Psalmist weak dependence and performs His acts according to His unfailing love which is displayed by this protective language. Gods communication of His unfailing love is the cause, means and ends in which all things are unified. God brings Himself glory by displaying His unfailing love.

God has decided to become a Man in order that He might display His eternal love to us mortals. Even tho the incarnation of Christ was a work that was perfected when He became flesh, He has always existed as the Son from before the world began. Gods condescending love has only one purpose. It is to deliver those He loves and bring them to Himself. No other created thing or people can save themselves. Salvation is in God alone.

Christ has not only come to identify with us so that He might provide us with a perfect salvation, but He has created every thing and has become the perfect reality that God has created and recreated through His spoken word. Gods word is yea and amen. His word cannot return to Him void. We live , breath, rest on His word and covenants. Christ has fulfilled all of Gods word and is seen as the only perfect work that is acceptable to God in obedience to His word. We depend upon God in this perfect defense that shields us from all opposition in possessing eternal weapons that cannot be thwarted. God describes our lives in His view of Christ perfect work on our behalf opposing all other descriptions, because He cannot fail in His covenants and promises to uphold His work that gives us a completed salvation experience. Gods love for us is unfailing in its defense of us and perfectly successful in fully delivering us.

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