“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.” Jeremiah 31:3
We sometimes, or most all the time do not understand God. In this flesh our understanding of God is as our faith in this flesh, it is not perfect. Why God would love a single soul after what Adam and his wife Eve did to God is beyond my imagination. Why God elected to love the Nation of Israel after they failed Him so many times. And even we Gentiles have failed God, churches have failed God, every one of God’s elect have failed God in so many ways. But God has an everlasting love for both His chosen Nation Israel, and His chosen people called His elect, even though we continually fail Him. The word “everlasting” means – a length out of mind, practically eternity – it is “a space of time or of unmeasured time” -Vines. In other words, our mind cannot comprehend the limitless amount of time because we are limited in everything. But to make it simple, there was never a time God did not love His elect Nation or His elect people. This was written to His chosen Nation but also to His chosen people, "The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: (8) But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (9) Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;" Deuteronomy 7:7 - 9 No matter were in life the Lord puts us, or the valleys that God sends us through, or that happenings of life we just cannot figure out what God is doing. But be assured that He has us in His hand and He will never turn us loose because of His eternal love for all of His elect. However, as a believer in Jesus Christ and an elect child of God His love is unmerited, “The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:” God loves by His own choosing and with an eternal love, without beginning or ending. It was out of this eternal love that God elected before the world was ever created that He would love a remnant of people and redeem them and call them sons. “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. (10) Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” 1 John 4:9 – 10 This is our blessing in life, no matter of anything or anyone else, God loves His children with an unending love. It is through this love that we ought to dwell in this life in God’s love that the Holy Spirit gifts us all with when we are saved. “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” 1 John 4:16 Here is the love from God to every elect child, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: (5) Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, (6) To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” Ephesians 1:4 – 6 Beloved, we are accepted to God as a child thru Jesus Christ because He loved us and chose us to be His. That is true Lord, that is God’s eternal love.
