The Lord appeared to us in the past. He said,
“I have loved you with a love that lasts forever.
I have kept on loving you with a kindness that never fails.
Jeremiah 31:3 NIRV
“There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God’s} love to me is utterly realistic,
based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me,
so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me,
in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself,
and quench His determination to bless me.”
J. I. Packer
Lord, You are a God full of compassion,
generous in grace,
slow to anger,
and boundless in loyal love and truth.
Psalm 86:15 The Voice
“You ask me ‘What’s the greatest act of faith?’
To me it is to look in the mirror of God’s word,
and see all my faults, all my sin, all my shortcomings
and to believe that God loves me exactly as he says he does.”
Paul Washer
Consider the kind of extravagant love the Father has lavished on us—
He calls us children of God! It’s true; we are His beloved children.
1 John 3:1a The Voice
“This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.”
Mark Buchanan, The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God
“I have given God countless reasons not to love me.
None of them has been strong enough to change Him.”
Paul Washer
We know how much God loves us
because we have felt his love and because we believe him
when he tells us that he loves us dearly.
God is love, and anyone who lives in love is living with God
and God is living in him.
1 John 4:16 Living Bible
“Imagine how much a man’s life would change
if he trusted that he was loved by God.”
Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What