January 9, 2002

I LOVE YOU WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE!

"I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you" (Jeremiah 31:3, NKJV).

John testified, "By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us... Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation [to make reconciliation] for our sins... We love Him because He first loved us" (1 John 3:16; 4:7-10, 19).

Paul wrote, "That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height-- to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God" (Ephesians 3:17-19).

"I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38, 39).

"Whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him! (1 John 2:5).

My Prayer Today: Lord, thank You for loving me. Please teach me how to love others as You have loved me.