“He will rest in His love.” Zephaniah 3:17
MAN’S love is changeable, being a passion; God’s love is unchangeable, being a perfection. Having loved, He always will love. Nothing can occur in time, but what He knew from eternity; consequently there can be no reason today, why God should not love me, but what He knew would be before He set His heart upon me. He fixed His love upon us in the fore-view of all that would be done by us, or felt within us; and connected us with Jesus, that He might never withdraw His love from us. Oh, to be able to say with holy John, “We have known and believed the love that God hath to us! God is love!” The love of God is from everlasting to everlasting; without variableness, or the shadow of a turn. Here God resteth, and here we should rest. Herein is love, that God should take such poor, vile, ungrateful, wretched creatures, and make them the bride of His Son, the delight of His soul, and His portion for evermore. Oh, the riches of divine love! Admire it, trust it, rejoice in it, and make it the subject of your daily meditation. “HE WILL REST IN HIS LOVE.” On this rock we may rest with confidence; on this pillow we may repose in peace.
The cov’nant of grace all blessings secures;
Believer, rejoice, for all things are yours;
And God from His purpose shall never remove,
But love thee, and bless thee, and rest in His love.