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“Yea, I [the Lord] have loved thee with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3).
It is heart-warming that this verse is not spoken at the beginning of the history of Israel, but rather at the point where God was going to allow them to be carried away into captivity because of their sin. Yet He reassures them through the prophet Jeremiah that He loved them with an everlasting love. Although He did not allow them to get away with sin, yet He never stopped loving them.
You and I have not done any better, yet the Lord’s love to us never changes. In spite of all man’s sin the Lord Jesus went to Calvary’s cross and suffered for sin, not because we deserved it, but because of His love. It was His love that took Him to the cross, and His love that caused Him to remain on the cross, until He could cry out triumphantly, “It is finished!”
The Lord Jesus wants us to remember His love, for as our verse tells us, it is an everlasting love. We can remember His love here in this world, but we will also remember it for all eternity.
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