His Unfailing Love Endures Forever

 When I was having a low point in my feelings this week, something in my Bible reading jumped out at me and stayed in my head.

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I've read so many times in the Scripture about God's unfailing love and mercy. When I came once again across the words "His love endures forever", I thought about what a perfect sentence it is. Every word of it soothes my soul when I need it.

His - my God, my Savior, my Everything

Love - the unfailing, unsurpassed, all-encompassing love that I don't even deserve but get from Him

Endures - endures through my falling down, my lapses, my sadness, hurt, and emotional turmoil

Forever - forever I am loved, forever I am forgiven, forever I will have peace and joy in Him

"His love endures forever". It was the lifeline I held onto while I was struggling with my disappointment in people's actions, my disappointment in myself for being affected by those actions, and just wanting to feel sorry for myself.

His unfailing love is a reminder to me how temporary everything here is. Success and failure, fame and infamy, joy and hurt. None of the bad stuff is going to last and none of the good stuff is going to measure up to what's promised. None of what we have here is eternal - but his unfailing love is.

Isn't that reassuring and beautiful? 

Now, I didn't miraculously stop being down and blue. I didn't just jump up and get on with life as if my feelings hadn't been stung. But I remembered that it would pass. And it will.

I'm still feeling, as the kids say: "some kind of way", but that's okay. I've been here before and more than likely will many times again. Until eternity. And in the meantime, His love endures forever - right now and neverending. 

Peace

--Free

To The Atheists

I asked and atheist recently if they were angry at God or just didn't believe in God. They responded that they are not angry, that they just don't believe. They think that my faith is useless.

Here is the thing tho: both the atheist and I have a faith. Mine is in that God is; theirs is in that there is no God. But, like I told the atheist: one of us is wrong. If I am wrong, I am no worse off at death than the atheist, but if he is wrong, he has lost eternity.

Now, understand that I can't conceive of the "No God" idea. I have had too much personal interaction with the Holy Spirit in my life to NOT believe. But if I had nothing other than simple faith, that would be enough for me.

If there is no God, and if I believed that, there would be nothing stopping me from doing anything to get anything. Even most people who don't believe in God recognize what God has put in us as the understanding of "Right and Wrong." Most people who don't believe in God don't want harm to come to those they love. They understand it's wrong to kill. They understand feeling remorse and sadness and joy and relief. They look at their newborn children and cannot explain or express the wonder of that miracle.

So, if you are going to tell me that there is no God and ask me to prove that there is, I would ask that you prove to yourself that there isn't.

I direct you to God's words TO you atheists: The fool has said in his heart that there is no God (Psalm 14:1)

By the way, after I wrote this post, I found a page that does address the positions of atheists. It is here. I encourage my Christan, non-Christian and atheist readers to check it out.

Finally, I would just say that if you are going to base your life and bet your eternity on a belief, then it's worth making sure that your belief is solid. This goes for those who don't believe in God, those who believe in false gods, and even more importantly, for those of us who believe in God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Former atheist C.S. Lewis (who, like most serious atheists, was extremely intelligent) has always been someone I think of as a man who wanted to at least examine and understand his belief before he staked his life on it. If he was wrong, then at least he was not carelessly wrong.

Peace