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
