For the LORD is good and His love endures forever....
God's love isn't temporary and it isn't based on His view of us. Believe it or not, He knows who we are...both as conglomerate mankind and as individuals. And He loves us...forever....always will.
Enduring love --- it's a concept that may be hard for some of us to grasp. For many of us, our parents exhibited an enduring love, but for others, parental love was a sometimes on, sometimes off emotion. For many of us, marriages have proven to be an atmosphere of enduring love; but for others, marriages have failed and what was thought to be a relationship that would last a lifetime fell far short of that.
Point is, every earthly relationship has the potential to fail and people who claimed to love us, suddenly don't make that claim any longer, or at least not for today.
But God - oh, our God - He isn't fickle! He isn't a love that will walk out on us or throw His hands up and say, "I'm through!" He has committed to loving His children forever. FOREVER! In the King James Version, it says "everlasting"...translates to antiquity, futurity, forever, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, long time (of past), always, continuous existence, unending future, eternity....get it???
Another aspect that "everlasting" brings with it is the fact that there is no exhausting of God's love, it can't run out. As Matthew Henry puts it, "it is a fountain that can never be drawn dry." Isn't that a lovely phrasing of words to describe the infinite supply of the love of God?
Ephesians 3:17-19 may seem a little more meaningful to us after thinking about the nature of God's love...let Paul's words echo David's and let them sink into your soul....
God's love isn't temporary and it isn't based on His view of us. Believe it or not, He knows who we are...both as conglomerate mankind and as individuals. And He loves us...forever....always will.
Enduring love --- it's a concept that may be hard for some of us to grasp. For many of us, our parents exhibited an enduring love, but for others, parental love was a sometimes on, sometimes off emotion. For many of us, marriages have proven to be an atmosphere of enduring love; but for others, marriages have failed and what was thought to be a relationship that would last a lifetime fell far short of that.
Point is, every earthly relationship has the potential to fail and people who claimed to love us, suddenly don't make that claim any longer, or at least not for today.
But God - oh, our God - He isn't fickle! He isn't a love that will walk out on us or throw His hands up and say, "I'm through!" He has committed to loving His children forever. FOREVER! In the King James Version, it says "everlasting"...translates to antiquity, futurity, forever, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, long time (of past), always, continuous existence, unending future, eternity....get it???
Another aspect that "everlasting" brings with it is the fact that there is no exhausting of God's love, it can't run out. As Matthew Henry puts it, "it is a fountain that can never be drawn dry." Isn't that a lovely phrasing of words to describe the infinite supply of the love of God?
Ephesians 3:17-19 may seem a little more meaningful to us after thinking about the nature of God's love...let Paul's words echo David's and let them sink into your soul....
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
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God's love is so great and so mighty. I can't know that type of love here on earth. It is beyond man's knowledge and capabilities. As I continue my daily walk with Christ my willingness and desire has increased my capabilities of loving and forgiving others. God's love and power surpasses all. I know He loves me, but sometimes I can't love myself as much as God does. We can only obtain that kind of love in our everlasting lives in eternity by Christ's side. Until then I pray for the strength to love and accept others. God is so good and so loving. That is why we can reach out to him in prayer each day and know He hears us. Each and every day God is there.
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