When you put the words love and everlasting in the same sentence, it comes off as an oxymoron. Both verbs are difficult to define, or fully understand. The term love covers the pasta we ate for dinner, our new droid, or the fresh romance we are starting. Everlasting and Happily Ever After are the things of Fairy Tales.
We are accustomed to warranties, guarantees, default contracts, and prenups. With our revolving door affection our computers, flat screens, and significant others barely last a year before they launch the new models and we are on to the next thing. Besides, nothing on this earth lasts forever.
When God tells us He loves us with an everlasting love, we might be tempted to shrug it off since contracts and hearts can be easily broken. Our limited understanding tends to humanize God. If he writes us off because we have messed-up year after year, that’s understandable. However, if He rides out the storms of life right along with us as we entertain our personal demons it just doesn’t make sense! Who am I that God would care?
Here are a few facts about Everlasting Love we can count on….
· God reaches out to us unconditionally. He loves us before we can honestly love Him. The Lord has appeared to me saying, “I have loved you with an everlasting love: with kindness I continue my faithfulness to you.” Jeremiah 31:3
· No matter how far from shore the choppy waters of temptation has left you, nothing you have done, or will do, can separate you from the love of God. “Neither death nor life nor angels or demons….will be able to separate us from the love of Christ.” Romans 8: 38-39
· He gave everything to open the way for us to accept His Everlasting Love. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him will have everlasting life.” John 3:16
When we enter into this contract, we will live Happily Everlasting...
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