Today’s Devotional: “God’s Love Doesn’t Change”

In Malachi 1:2, the Lord said to the people, “I have loved you.”

Now, in the Hebrew language, this is in the present subjective tense. And while I am not a Hebrew scholar, what I am told is that this indicates that God always has and always will love His people.

And so more literally God said, “I always have and always will love you.”

This is also beautifully brought out by the Lord through the prophet Jeremiah.

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

Can I just say that it doesn’t get any more unchanging than “everlasting!”

But what we see in God’s pronouncement through Malachi is the people’s response in asking God just how He has loved them saying, “In what way have You loved us?” (Malachi 1:2b)

And while we think, how could they ask such a thing seeing what God has done for them, don’t we ask the same question as well, especially when things don’t go our way, or when sickness or disaster strikes, we wonder where’s God, and why doesn’t He love us enough to stop all that is happening.

When we get to this point, what we must do is to look past our circumstances and directly at God’s revelation that God doesn’t change and that His love for us is everlasting, and that He is a good and faithful God.

Our problem is that we don’t like God’s tough love. That is a love that won’t allow us to get away with doing whatever we want, rather than what the Lord has called for us in His word. And so, much like a child that questions a parent’s love for them when they don’t get what they want, we question God’s love for us.

But God always has and always will love us. His love is everlasting.