Love We Can Trust 6/1-5

01-05 June 2016 - Love We Can Trust – Manna by Dorothy Callies

Lamentations 3:22 “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed (destroyed), because His compassions (mercy) fail not” (NKJV).

Maybe the most painful statement a person can hear is, “I don’t love you anymore.”  Those words end relationships, break hearts, and shatter dreams. Often, people who have been betrayed guard themselves against future pain by deciding not to trust anyone’s love again.  Sometimes a person might felt like that with God.

But the wonderful thing about God’s love for us is His promise that it will never end.  Jeremiah, the prophet experienced the anguish, the extreme pain and distress that left him with emotionally exhausted (Lam. 3:13-20). Jeremiah’s own people rejected his calls to respond to God’s love and to follow Him.

Jeremiah reached to his lowest point and said, “My strength and my hope have perished from the Lord” (Lam. 3:18). Yet, in his darkest hour Jeremiah thought of God’s unfailing love and wrote, “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not ‘destroyed,’ because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness” (Lam. 3:22-23).  

Jeremiah continued, “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him. The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord” (Lam. 3:24-26 NKJV). In spite of Jeremiah’s anguish, he put his trust in God.

A person may vow to love us forever yet fail to keep that promise, but God’s love remains steadfast and sure. “He will not leave you nor forsake you” (Deut. 31:6). That is a love we can trust.  His grace, His loving-kindness and gentleness are new every morning. It feels so fresh spiritually when you open your heart to Abba, your ‘daddy.’ His love will not let you go. May the Lord heals you in Jesus’ name.

Song: O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

      By George Matheson, Sing His Praise

O Love that will not let me go,

I rest my weary soul in Thee;

I give Thee back the life I owe,

That in Thine ocean depth its flow

May rich - er, full - er be.