Quote of the Day

"As God manifests a sense of His love to us it seems various and changeable; sometimes more, sometimes less; now He shines, then He hides His face, as it may be for our profit. Our Father will not always chide, lest we be cast down; He does not always smile, lest we become full and neglect Him: but yet, still He gathers us with everlasting kindness. Does God love His people in their sinning? Yes, His people - not their sinning. He does not alter His love towards them, or the purpose of His will, but the dispensations of His grace. He rebukes, chastens, and hides His face from them, but woe, woe would it be to us should He change His love or take away His kindness from us! Those things that seem to be demonstrations of the change of His affections, proceed also from love as much as those which seem the most genuine issues of love!"

              - John Owen