October 22
It’s wonderful to know we have a God who loves us. Love is sometimes difficult to identify in our fallen world where fathers, who are supposed to be prophet and priest over their families sometimes abuse their wives and children. Love is difficult to identify when lies are spewn by leaders for whom we are admonished to pray (I Timothy 2:1, 2).
As Waylon Jennings in his country song observes, love is hard to find because we’re, “…looking for love in all the wrong places.” We won’t, as he noted, find it in the faces of strangers, nor will we always find it in those people who should have loved us but didn’t because they had an agenda of self-realization that they were pursuing instead.
Where we will find love is in God who is love. His Word that cannot fail and cannot lie tells us that He loves us with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:3). No matter how sinful we are, no matter whether we seek Him or pursue false gods, HE will remain ever faithful to us. Even if He is required to send us to hell for our un-repentance, He will yet love us. If we are eternally in the pit, we will know that even there His heart is with us. But that awful eventuality need not be!
The one great confirmation of that truth is the assertion in II Corinthians 5:7 where Paul says, “If anyone belongs to Christ, he is a new creation. Old things are passed away and all things become new.” As God declared through the great songsmith David, “He forgave the guilt of the people and covered all their sins,” Psalm 85:2. Whatever our sin or shortcoming, Jesus’ wondrous love does just that—forgives our guilt, covers our sins, and makes us new.
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