“For the Lord will
not cast off for ever”
Lamentations 3:31
He may cast away for a season, but not for ever.
“LOVE UNTO THE END”
A woman may leave
off her ornaments for a few days, but she will not
forget them, nor throw them upon the dunghill. It is not
like the Lord to cast off those whom He loves: for,
“having loved his own which were in the world, he loved
them unto the end.”
Some talk of our being in grace and out of it, as if we
were like rabbits that run in and out of their burrows:
but, indeed, it is not so. The Lord’s love is a far more
serious and abiding matter than this.
He chose us from eternity, and He will love us
throughout eternity. He loved us so as to die for us,
and we may therefore be sure that His love will never
die. His honor is so wrapped up in the salvation of the
believer, that He can no more cast him off than He can
cast off His own robes of office as King of glory.
No, no! The Lord Jesus, as a Head, never casts off His
members; as a Husband, He never casts off His bride. Did
you think you were cast off? Why did you think so evil
of the Lord who has betrothed you to Himself? Cast off
such thoughts, and never let them lodge in your soul
again.
“The Lord hath not cast away his people which he
foreknew” Romans 11:2.
“He hateth putting away”Malachi 2:16).
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