His Love is Everlasting
I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness (Jeremiah 31:3b)
Jeremiah’s dread warnings and predictions of the Babylonian captivity had come to pass. Denunciation followed indictment through the heartbroken foretelling of the prophet. Yet, hope was extended to God’s people as they experienced consequences of adulterous rebellion.
This reassurance found in 31:3 was written by Jeremiah to his people who were still under severe chastisement. Judah was in exile. Idolatrous sin was recompensed by a diaspora into the land believed to be the fountainhead of idolatry. They were suffering and humiliated.
More than once, false comfort had been offered to the Jewish people by more than one false prophet. But now, God wanted to reinforce that His people had a future and a hope because He was for them. To drive this home, it took an oracle from the very prophet who described this exile.
He revealed this:
God never stopped loving His people.
Even in exile.
Even when in suffering and humiliation.
He never stopped loving them.
He would fulfill His purposes for them. He would cause them to know the love He had for them.
When we see God’s love for the Jewish people we see a picture of God’s love for each of us. It is not a passing whim. It is a love which origin goes back throughout the ages. Just like God knew Jeremiah before he was created, so can we be certain that His love for us predated our existence.
Let’s expect the preserving hand of the Father who loves us, to draw us.
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Also, David wrote a book about God’s love for the Jewish People called, For the Sake of the Fathers
