In Jeremiah 31:3 I read, “I love you with an everlasting love.” (GW)
Nothing I’ve ever done or will ever do can stop God from loving me. God said in Jeremiah 31:3, “I love you with an everlasting love” (GW).
Everlasting love is forever. I can’t make God stop loving me; he will love me forever. His love isn’t based on what I do. It’s based on who he is. The reason I’m alive is because God made me, to love me.
That’s why God sent his Son: “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16 NLT).
God wants me to know his love. Even more, he wants me to feel his love.
God’s love will transform me when I feel it. It turns somebody who is hateful, bigoted, or racist into a kind, gentle, and loving person. When God’s love hits my heart, it changes me.
If my life hasn’t changed, then I don’t know God. I can’t have somebody as big as God come into my life and not be changed by it.
When God’s love comes into my life, it changes how I react to everyone else. When I truly understand and experience the love of God, I can’t help but pass it on to others.
In fact, Jesus described it like this: “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another. By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:34-35 HCSB).
But it starts with God’s love for me.
The most amazing conversion in the Bible is of a guy named Saul, who was a religious extremist that killed Christians. One day, on his way to Damascus, he encountered the resurrected Jesus.
Jesus said to Saul, “Why are you persecuting me?”
Saul fell to his knees and said, “My Lord and my God.”
The man who had once been a religious extremist became the apostle of love. Saul, now known as Paul, wrote most of the New Testament, including some of the most beautiful words on love ever written, 1 Corinthians 13.
The everlasting, completely free love of God will do that. It changes lives.
In summary, God says to me, I love you with an everlasting love. There is nothing I’ve ever done or will ever do that can stop God from loving me. His everlasting love is forever. His love isn’t based on what I do. It’s based on who he is. The reason I’m alive is because God made me, to love me. That’s why God sent his Son. God wants me to know his love. Even more, he wants me to feel his love. God’s love will transform me into a kind, gentle, and loving person. When God’s love hits my heart, it changes me. When God’s love comes into my life, it changes how I react to everyone else. When I truly understand and experience the love of God, I can’t help but pass it on to others. It starts with God’s love for me. The everlasting, completely free love of God changes lives.
God reaches toward me with kindness motivated by deep and everlasting love. He is eager to do the best for me if I will only let him. Rather than thinking of God with dread, I need to look carefully and see him lovingly draw me toward himself.
Lord, I need you. Please give me Your strength for today to feel your love and to love others in return. I also ask you for wisdom and guidance for my day, my work, my leadership, my interactions with others, my training for a future job role and learning a small group. I pray these things through you Son Jesus’ name, amen.
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