How ravishing is the thought!

(You will find it helpful to LISTEN to the Audio, as you READ the text below.)

Charles Spurgeon

"Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love!
 Therefore with loving-kindness I have drawn you."
     Jeremiah 31:3

How ravishing is the thought of eternal love! Try to drink it in.

If you are a believer in Christ, you were loved before time began its cycles. In that old eternity, before the earth was born, you were beloved of the Lord.

You were dear to Jehovah's heart when this great world, the sun, the moon, the stars--slept in the mind of God like unborn forests in an acorn-cup.

He loved you with an everlasting and infinite love. God chose you, not because of any goodness in you--but of his own sovereign will and good pleasure. Rejoice in this and let your heart be glad.

Never forget that sovereign and eternal election is the source of your every spiritual blessing!

"We love Him, because He first loved us!" 1 John 4:19

"May blessing (praise, laudation) be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm! Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight." Ephesians 1:3-4 (Amplified Bible)