JANUARY 28
AN EVERLASTING LOVE
Jeremiah 31:3
Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you. (WEB)
A good friend of mine, Jack Winter, used to describe the everlasting love of God referred to in this passage this way... "There was never a time in all eternity when you weren't loved." What an amazing promise from our Heavenly Father! There was never a time, and there will never be a time when you were not completely and unconditionally loved by God!
Many of us live our lives looking for love in the wrong places. Perhaps we didn't receive the love we needed growing up, so we searched for it in many counterfeit things. Today, I want to encourage you that even though you may not have received love from those around you, there is One who has always loved you and will always love you!
My prayer today is that every one of us would go deeper into the amazing, life-changing, transforming love that God has for us. He loved us before the world's creation and chose us to be joined with His beloved Son for eternity!
Ephesians 1:3-6
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love; 5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved, (WEB)
Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you. (WEB)
A good friend of mine, Jack Winter, used to describe the everlasting love of God referred to in this passage this way... "There was never a time in all eternity when you weren't loved." What an amazing promise from our Heavenly Father! There was never a time, and there will never be a time when you were not completely and unconditionally loved by God!
Many of us live our lives looking for love in the wrong places. Perhaps we didn't receive the love we needed growing up, so we searched for it in many counterfeit things. Today, I want to encourage you that even though you may not have received love from those around you, there is One who has always loved you and will always love you!
My prayer today is that every one of us would go deeper into the amazing, life-changing, transforming love that God has for us. He loved us before the world's creation and chose us to be joined with His beloved Son for eternity!
Ephesians 1:3-6
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love; 5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved, (WEB)