Great Encouragement in Christ JESUS ~ 08 June, 2025 A.D.

"I am God, and not man." -Hosea 11:9 [KJV]

We speak sometimes of the attributes of God, and we use the words to help our conception. But God, strictly speaking, has no attributes. His attributes are Himself. We speak, for instance, of the love of God, but God is love; of the justice of God, but God is just; of the holiness of God, but God is holy; of the purity of God, but God is pure. As He is all love, so He is all justice, all purity, all holiness. Love, then, is infinite, because God is infinite; His very name, His very character, His very nature, His very essence is infinite love. He would cease to be God if He did not love, and if that love were not as large as Himself, as infinite as His own self-existent, incomprehensible essence.

The love of the Son of God, as God the Son, is co-equal and co-eternal with the love of the Father; for the holy Trinity has not three distinct loves, either in date or degree. The Father loves from all eternity; the Holy Ghost loves from all eternity. The love of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, as one, equal, indivisible, infinite Jehovah cannot be otherwise but One. We therefore read of "the love of God," that is the Father (II Corinthians 13:14); of "the love of the Son" (Galatians 2:20); and of "the love of the Spirit" (Romans 15:30). 

This love being infinite, can bear with all our infirmities, with all those grievous sins that would, unless that love were boundless, have long ago broken it utterly through. This is beautifully expressed by the prophet: "How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? Mine heart is turned within me, My repentings are kindled together. I will not execute the fierceness of Mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man."

-preacher J.C. Philpot (1802–1869 A.D.)

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