God's love for us that never ends

I'm going to describe God's infinite love for us today.
God called out the people of Israel.  He still loved them and pursued them even though they had fallen away from him.  His love never ends, it goes on forever.

In Hosea 11:3-4, God says this about his love for the people, "It was I who taught Ephraim how to walk, taking them by the arms; but they did not realize it was I who healed them.  I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love."

He never gave up on the people of Israel even when they sinned against him and disobeyed him.  He still loved them.  He still had compassion on the people though they had fallen far from him.  He never let them fall too far, in the same way he will never let us as Christ followers go.  He is bigger than our own problems of this world.

God says this describing his fierce passion and compassion for his people, in Hosea 11:8-9, "How can I give up you up, Epraim?

How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I treat you like Admah?
How can I make you like Zoboiim?
My heart is changed within me;
all my compassion is aroused.
I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I turn and devastate Epraim.
For I am God, and not man-
the Holy One among you.
I will not come in wrath."
In the same way, Hosea loved Gomer though she had been with other men.  This gives us a picture of how much God loved the people of Israel though they had fallen far from him.  He loves us that same infinite and boundless way as Christ followers in the 21st century.  He pursues us through our failure and trials in our life and the times he we fall away from him.  We are the bride and God is the bridegroom who calls us out in the midst of life.
He also sent his son Jesus Christ to show his ultimate love for us on the cross.  He died so we could have life and life in him.

John 3:16, says this "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

 God's love is infinite and eternal.  It never ends and lasts forever.  It also gives the most abundant life that you could find. 

 In John 10:10 it says, The thief comes to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so they may have life and life to the full."

If we depend on him, his unending love will take us away from anything in life.  He will never let us go.  His love and passion for us is eternal.
Remember these truths as you read this blog today or next week.