All Love - Perfect Love

In the great and wonderful book of Deuteronomy chapter eight and verse five we find a much needed truth. “Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.”  You will find the same thing in Heb.12:5-6.  There was not, and is not today, a single thing within the range of the needs of His people in their march to the promise land, which was not secured to  them and  included in the fact that Jehovah had undertaken to do for them. With infinite love and almighty power on their side, what could be lacking?

            We will do well to  know that  love clothes  itself in various forms. It has something more to do than to provide food and raiment for its subjects. It has not only to take account of their physical, but also of their moral and spiritual wants.

            However, we do not like chastening; it is not joyous, but grievous. It is all very well for a son to receive food and raiment from a father’s hand, and to have all his comforts provided by a father’s thoughtful love, but he does not like to see him taking down the rod. Yet, the dreaded rod may be the very thing that is best for the child. It may correct the bad path he has chosen, or deliver him from some wrong tendency, save him from some evil influence, and thus prove a great moral and spiritual blessing for which he shall have to be forever thankful. The great and grand point for the child is to see a father’s love and care in the discipline and chastening just as distinctly as in the various material benefits which strew his path from day to day.

            Here is precisely where we so miserably fail in reference to the disciplinary dealings, of our Heavenly Father. We rejoice in His benefits and blessings, and often are filled with songs of delight which tell of His gracious help supplied all along the road of life. We may allow these blessed things to come in between our hearts and the Lord, and thus they become a snare to us. Hence, the need of chastening. Yet, we must remember that the trials of life help make and keep us and give us patience as brought out in Jas.1:2-4.  We may be called upon to wade through some deep waters in life which seem to our poor, feeble, coward hearts absolutely overwhelming. The enemy suggests the question. . .Is this love?  Faith  replies, without  hesitation and without reservation , Yes, it is All  Love  -  Perfect  Love!!!

. . . . Fred  House