…having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end. – John 13:1

As to the past, let us with holy contemplation review it: Jesus has loved His own people from of old. A most blessed fact! He has loved them eternally. There never was a time when He did not love them. His love is positively dateless: before the heavens and earth were made, and the stars were first touched with the torch of flame, Jesus had received His people from His Father, and written their names on His heart. This everlasting love has a speciality about it. Our Lord has a general love of benevolence towards all His creatures, for “God is love;” but He has a special place in His heart for His own peculiar ones. There is a discriminating and distinguishing power about that love that is spoken of in the text, for it is not said, “Having loved all men,” but “Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end.” Jesus, before all the world, set the crown of His peculiar love upon those whom He foreordained unto His glory.

This love of His is infinite. Jesus does not love His own with a little of His love, nor regard them with some small degree of affection, but He says, “As the Father hath loved Me, even so have I loved you,” and the Father’s love to the Son is inconceivably great, since they are one in essence, ineffably one. The Father cannot but love the Son infinitely, neither doth the Son ever love His people less than with all His heart. It is an affection which no angelic mind could measure; it is inconceivable, unknown. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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