Love That Transcends Time

What I find…remarkable about God’s love is that it is eternal. Rising above the confines of time, it reaches back to eternity past and stretches forward to eternity future. Before time began, before we ever could have loved Him, God initiated His love for us.

“He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world,” Paul wrote, “that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself” (Ephesians 1:4-5). According to this passage, God’s love for us welled up before the creation of the world. “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness,” He said through the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 31:3). Before God created heaven and earth, He loved us in Christ and set His heart upon us.

Furthermore, God’s love will endure throughout eternity future. Even in the ages to come, nothing will hinder the flow of God’s perfect love toward us in Christ. Far different from the world’s kind of love, which is fickle and frail, God’s love remains steadfast and stable forever. No fewer than twenty-six times in Psalm 136, once in each verse, the psalmist wrote, “His lovingkindness is everlasting.” While the everlasting nature of His love is hard to comprehend, it is not hard to appreciate and enjoy. God’s deep, abiding love for us, His people, will never be exhausted. His lovingkindness, the psalmist exulted, is everlasting!

Excerpt taken from Made in Our Image.