God's Love is Everlasting (Devotional)

As we go through life we may seek things outside ourselves to fill a void, that only can come from within. We may look to others for love, fulfillment, or validation. The more we seek these external validations, the more we are left with an emptiness inside. Our identity, self-worth, and love are found in God. The love you are seeking will be found once you recognize your self-worth in him. People may fail you, but God's love for you will never fail. “The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.” Jeremiah 31:3

God's love is unchanging, firm, unshakable, and steadfast. His love is like no other you cannot buy or earn God's love. God loves us, not because of who we are, but because of who he is. God is love. Even in our sins, God gave us his greatest gift his son Jesus. "But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8

Our shortcomings or mistakes do not change the very nature of God. "For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations." Psalm 100:5

People may love you conditional, temporarily, or seasonal, but God's love is everlasting. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. " I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38-39 May we continue to reflect on the goodness of the LORD and all that he has done for us. Let us reign with hearts of gratitude that God's love is eternal, boundless, and never changing.

Encouraging Scriptures on God's Love

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, Deuteronomy 7:9

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 1 John 4:16

Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the Lord, who has compassion on you. Isaiah 54:10

But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. Psalm 86:15

We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19,

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 4:9-11

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John 3:1

Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever. Psalm 136: 26

Prayer

Heavenly Father in Jesus' name we come before you with humbled hearts of gratitude. We just want to thank you for your eternal, boundless, and everlasting love, that you so graciously have bestowed upon us. LORD, we thank you for being the same yesterday and today and forevermore. May we continue to abide in your love. Trusting in you forever and ever. In Jesus' name, we pray, Amen.