The Mystery of God's Love.
A gentleman, who thought Christianity was merely a heap of puzzling problems, said to an old minister, “That is a very strange verse in the ninth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, 'Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.'”
“Very strange,” replied the minister; “but what is it, sir, that you see most strange about it?”
“Oh, that part of course,” said the gentleman, patronizingly, and with an air of surprise, “'Esau have I hated' is certainly very strange.”
“Well, sir,” said the old minister, “how wonderfully are we made, and how differently constituted. The strangest part of all to me is that He could have loved Jacob.”
There is no mystery so glorious as the mystery of God's love.--Selected.
Illustrative Anecdotes for
Preachers, Sunday School Teachers, and the Family Circle. Henry
M. Tyndall. 1925. #400 (Page 214).
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