Daily Power #68

“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” (Jer. 31:3)

I once heard about a teenage girl who gave her boyfriend a framed picture of herself. On the front she wrote, “Todd, I love you more than life itself! Yours forever, Ashley.” However, later after they broke up, Todd discovered Ashley had left him another note written on the back of her picture: “If we ever break up, I want this picture back—and my mom wants the frame!”

Life often conditions many of us to view love as temporary and conditional. As a result, we are tempted to apply the same mindset to the way God loves us. If we have a good day at work, we think he must really love us. If the car breaks down or the kids get sick, then we wonder why God doesn’t love us anymore. But that’s not the way God’s love operates.

Our Father’s love is permanent and unchanging. While others may love you today and abandon you tomorrow, God’s love never changes. And because of his love, you will always be a valuable, worthwhile individual. His very nature is love and he sacrificed all he could to show you just how much he loves you. He gave his only Son to die on the cross.

Today stop doubting God’s love for you and bask in being his beloved child.

Power Lift

Lord, your love is beyond anything I can experience from the people in my life. Thank you that your unconditional love never changes.