God's Everlasting Love

February 14, 2025

 Nobody loves you like God loves you. In fact, God says, “I have loved you . . . with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself” (Jeremiah 31:3 NLT).

You can’t make God stop loving you; he will love you forever. His love isn’t based on what you do. It’s based on who he is. The only reason you’re alive is because God made you to love you.

Today, I want us to look at two aspects of God’s love:

God’s love is unconditional. God’s love doesn’t say, “I love you if . . .” That’s conditional. Conditional love says things like, “I love you if you love me. I love you if you please me. I love you if you’re good looking.” That’s not real love. What happens when someone loses their good looks? What happens when you find someone else more interesting? Do you just stop loving them? That kind of love it conditional love.

But God’s love for you says, “I love you, period. I love you even though you don’t always love me, you’re not always consistent, and you don’t always do the right thing.”

God’s love is consistent. It’s not fickle. It’s not unpredictable. Maybe you grew up with inconsistent parents. Inconsistent parents create insecure kids. A man once said to me, “I never knew if my dad was going to slug me or hug me. He was unpredictable.” That’s inconsistent love.

But with God, you’ll never have to ask, “Will God love me today?” His love is eternal.

Psalm 100:5 says, “The LORD is good; his love is eternal and his faithfulness lasts forever” (GNT).

No matter what you’ve done, who you’ve done it with, or how long you’ve done it, God’s love for you will last forever.

The most amazing conversion in the Bible is of a guy named Saul, who was a religious extremist that killed Christians. One day, on his way to Damascus, he encountered the resurrected Jesus.

Jesus said to Saul, “Why are you persecuting me?”

Saul fell to his knees and said, “My Lord and my God.”

The man who had once been a religious extremist became the apostle of love. Saul, now known as Paul, wrote most of the New Testament, including some of the most beautiful words on love ever written, 1 Corinthians 13.

The everlasting, completely free love of God will do that. It changes lives.

Has it changed yours?