The word for today is - Everlasting !

Happy Valentine’s Day!

 The word for today is - Everlasting !

 

We know that the world is seeking love, but the love that they are seeking is in man. The world says I’ll love you if you are good to me but if you hurt me I will get you back.  This is evil for evil. The word from God say we are to have  His Love (Agape) in us. Let's look at God's love for mankind. God hates sin but let us never stray from the great Biblical doctrine of God's love for mankind, which allowed Christ to be nailed to the cross for our sins. However, the entire Bible is based upon the fact that God loves mankind, so much that God the Father sent His only begotten Son into the world to suffer and die for our sins.  Let's read John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Notice the words, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish! Let's also look at Romans 5:8, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." God in His foreknowledge knew how sinful and rotten mankind would be, but He looked beyond our faults and saw our need for redemption. Jesus Christ died, was buried and rose again from the grave to take away our sins. Jesus did this by the shedding of His blood. Read 1 John 4:19 declares, "We love him, because He first loved us." The Bible teaches that God loved us before we loved Him.  Remember, we live in time but God lives in eternity where there is no time read Revelation 10:6. Even after being nailed to the cross, Jesus expressed forgiveness to the Roman soldiers who had stripped him naked, beat Him beyond recognition, placed a sharp crown of thorns upon His head, mocked Him, spit on Him and then nailed Him to a cross to bleed and die read Luke 23:34. Don't you ever say that God doesn't love us ! There is no depth of sin known to man which can prevent the arm of God from saving the sinner who seeks forgiveness, "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God..."   Jesus is the perfect example of Love. Love never fails. The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee "in Jeremiah 31:3. It's everlasting ! "Unending Love."  Thank you God for your word. Amen !