Everlasting Love
7/27/26 Bible Thought (Jeremiah 30-31)
Main Idea: The Lord’s everlasting love is beyond human ruin.
A Look at the Text:
After Jeremiah’s letter to the exiles in chapter 29, the future hope for Judah is still in view in today’s text. God speaks through His prophet that a great return would take place and Judah would go home (Jer. 30:3). The yoke of their oppressors would be broken (Jer. 30:8). While God would make a full end of Babylon, Israel would remain (Jer. 30:11).
Ultimately, this hope was tied not to the faithfulness of the people, but to the everlasting love of the Lord (Jer. 31:3).
“I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you” (Jer. 31:3b)
The people could have hope not because of any national change or military might but because of the faithfulness of their God. Though He scattered them, He would bring them back (Jer. 31:10).
Even more, He would make a new covenant with them. The law wouldn’t merely be written outwardly, but it would be engraved into the tablets of human hearts (Jer. 31:33).
Bringing it Home:
God’s plans for Judah even during Babylonian captivity showcase His everlasting love like nothing else up to that point. Though His people had transgressed His covenant and cheated on Him with other lovers, He still loved them. He still had plans for them. The Promised Land was a promise once again. Even though their sin was grave, it wasn’t beyond redemption. A new hope was coming, and God did take them home a few decades later.
Then, as we turn the page to the New Testament, we find that this hope hinges ultimately on Jesus Christ. He is the inaugurator of a new and better covenant. A covenant between the same God and sinful people. A covenant with a God whose grace is inexhaustible. A God who put His love on full display on Golgotha’s hill two thousand years ago:
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins (1 John 4:9-10).
The love of God is truly an everlasting love. It is beyond human ability to wreck or ruin, for it depends not on our performance but upon His nature. As the Gettys have sung so beautifully, “Our sins they are many, but His mercy is more.”
Challenge:
Do I believe that I could fall farther than the grace of God could pick me back up?