A song we sing at Living Faith Church is One Thing Remains - which simply reminds us that God's love never fails, it never gives up, it never runs out on me. I recently had a conversation with a friend who wondered if we set people up to believe God's love would not run out for them. Does this concept keep people from accepting Christ in their window of opportunity? Does it give them false hope for eternity even when they don't have a relationship with Christ?
My answer was that songs like One Thing Remains reminds us as followers of Jesus that we can be confident in God's love for us. On God's side of our relationship we can be confident that God will always keep His part of the covenant and He will always love us. Even if we are facing demons, worries, trial, or the powers of all hell coming against us, we need to remember God still loves us.
In the same way I don't believe that our love for God is consistent. We can be led astray or we can decide to turn our backs on the love of God. As we all know from relationships it take two individuals to have a relationship. I can love someone very well but if they chose not to love me back the relationship is strained. This is how many marriages are today. One person loves and their partner is not fully committed to the relationship. The one person cannot create a loving relationship. Just because God's love is amazing doesn't mean we will receive it, have a relationship with God and keep a relationship with God. Either way in the end all that will remain is the love of God.
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