{"id":473,"date":"2008-05-01T21:28:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T01:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/05\/01\/until-he-finds-it\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T21:28:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T01:28:37","slug":"until-he-finds-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Until He Finds It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This God&#8217;s love is a redemptive love; a patient, kind love that never gives up (I Corinthians 13).\u00c2\u00a0 This Father is a shepherd who, as Jesus taught, does not give up seeking his beloved, wayward sheep, but looks for it <em>until he finds it<\/em> (Luke 15:4).\u00c2\u00a0 His covenant with creation will not allow him to abandon it to its own darkness, but commits him to redeeming it in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>The love of God in the New Testament, as in the Old, is perfectly compatible with divine wrath and punishment (Heb 12:7-11).\u00c2\u00a0 However, such punishment is always a means to an end, and such wrath is never the last word.\u00c2\u00a0 The last word is always grace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gregory MacDonald, <em>The Evangelical Universalist, <\/em>p. 103<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This God&#8217;s love is a redemptive love; a patient, kind love that never gives up (I Corinthians 13).\u00c2\u00a0 This Father is a shepherd who, as Jesus taught, does not give up seeking his beloved, wayward sheep, but looks for it until he finds it (Luke 15:4).\u00c2\u00a0 His covenant with creation will not allow him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}