Before the Foundation of the World

Spurgeon has quickly become one of my favorite authors to read.  His writings always seem to come to life in my mind, and I can focus and meditate and pray about one sentence for ages - he was truly a gifted writer! 


I read this piece the other day, and wanted to share.  It's just a beautiful reminder of how much our Father LOVES us.  It's an earth shattering, to the very core, deep, saturating, overwhelming love - one that can't be broken or lost by anything we do or say.  Once you let that love wash over you and consume you, you will never, ever be able to question if you are His. 

"In the very beginning, when this great universe lay in the mind of God, like unborn forests in the acorn cup; long ere the echoes awoke the solitudes; before the mountains were brought forth; and long ere the light flashed through the sky, God loved His chosen creatures. Before there was any created being—when the ether was not fanned by an angel's wing, when space itself had not an existence, when there was nothing save God alone—even then, in that loneliness of Deity, and in that deep quiet and profundity, His bowels moved with love for His chosen. Their names were written on His heart, and then were they dear to His soul. Jesus loved His people before the foundation of the world—even from eternity! and when He called me by His grace, He said to me, "I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee."

Then, in the fullness of time, He purchased me with His blood; He let His heart run out in one deep gaping wound for me long ere I loved Him. Yea, when He first came to me, did I not spurn Him? When He knocked at the door, and asked for entrance, did I not drive Him away, and do despite to His grace? Ah, I can remember that I full often did so until, at last, by the power of His effectual grace, He said, "I must, I will come in;" and then He turned my heart, and made me love Him."

-Charles Spurgeon, A Defense of Calvinism