human love wears out…

what about GOD’s love for you? ephesians 3.17-18 (niv), i pray that you will grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of CHRIST.

GOD's love is wide enough to include everybody…GOD's love is long enough to last forever.

jeremiah 31.3 (niv), I have loved you with an everlasting love.

psalm 89.2 (tev), GOD's love will last for all time.

and that is so different from our kind of love. human love wears out. it can. that's why we have a lot of divorces. it wears out. i know a lot of people who are not divorced but they don't love each other anymore. there's a limit. it dries up. that's why you have to have GOD's love in your marriage if it's going to last.

i don't know how marriages last without GOD's love in them. human love can wear out, it can be hurt. but GOD's love never wears out. GOD's love is patient, persistent, persevering.

isn't it good news to know that GOD never gives up on you? no matter what you do HIS love never gives up. it's wide enough to include everybody and it's long enough to last forever. GOD will never love you any more than HE does right now. but HE also will never love you any less than HE does right now. HE loves you on your good days. HE loves you on your bad days. because HIS love is not conditioned by your response. GOD is love. it is unearned, undeserved. just accept it!

just a thought from the front porch…