Day 44Healing for the Heart

God's Love Doesn't Change

I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Jeremiah 31:3

In the middle of so much that has changed or been lost in your life, there's one thing that doesn't change: God's love for you. It's not a love that's here today and might end tomorrow, like so many human loves have taught you to fear. It's "everlasting love" — without beginning and without end, steady when everything else shakes. Maybe you've been loved conditionally: loved while you served, while you pleased, while you were useful. And so it's become hard to believe there's a love that remains even when you have nothing to offer. But God's love doesn't depend on your performance. He loved you before, loves you now — broken, weary, in recovery — and will love you after. You don't have to do anything to earn it or fear losing it. Today, rest in this one thing that will never change: you are loved with an everlasting love. Forever. Unconditionally. Without end.

Prayer

Father, in the middle of so much that has changed, thank You that Your love for me doesn't change. I rest in that everlasting love. Draw me close to You today. Amen.