Eternally Loved of God

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

God foreknows the future thus he sees outside the restrictions of time. For God to have chosen you before he created the world and for him to have chosen you in love is to say that he eternally loved you. To be eternally loved is to never be forsaken and forever drawn to him through lovingkindness. He purposed this in Christ to demonstrate the incomparable riches of his grace in lovingkindness.

even as he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy, blameless in his presence, in love, predestining us for adoption as his own through Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure of his will (Ephesians 1:4-5)

From eternity God chose us before he created the world, the establishment of time. Through foreknowledge, God looked into time and chose you. Paul writes, that before Jacob and Esua had done anything good or bad, God chose Jacob and loved him. Jacob wasn't so reciprocating but God loved him with everlasting love, drawing him to him in lovingkindness. Why and to whom he shows mercy and chooses it is not for us to know and understand, it is according to the good pleasure of his will.

give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, his lovingkindness endures forever (Psalm 136:1)

Bless God for blessing you in Christ, who called you not because you were good but of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ before time began (2 Timothy 1:9). God chose you in love before he created the world, a love that surpasses knowledge (Ephesians 1:3-4; Ephesians 3:18-19). One day when we see him face to face we will be know as we are known by God; loved of God. Until then His love is made known (manifested, revealed) to us in part thus it is a love that we do not know in fullness, therefore it is surpassing knowledge.

such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain (Psalm 139:6).

Jeremiah and David understood of such everlasting love and calling, 'before you were formed in the womb" and "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb" and "Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."

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

David knew of God's eternal love and was drawn to God through lovingkindness "Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast." (Psalms 139:7-10).

Of what kind of love has the Father given to us, so that called children of God; and existing, through this the world does not know us because not knowing him (1 John 3:1)

Knowing God or to be known by him is to be loved. Oh to fathom the vastness of his steadfast love, surpassing in human comprehension, to know a love that is eternal without bounds that has no depth nor height nor width nor breadth, a love that endures forever. This is our God, who exists love and makes his everlasting love known to us. This is who we are, children loved of God.

we love because he first loved us (1 John 4:19)

We are called to love others especially those of the household of God, but how can we? if we do not know of his great love? Our response to being loved is to love him which overflows to others. We are continuingly knowing of his love, comprehending more and more, thus being drawn to him in lovingkindness. We love because he first loved us or we love because he first manifested his love to us. We endure, bear, and believe all because love endures, believes, and bears all. God's love is everlasting upon whom he chooses.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well (Psalm 139:14)

The works of God I know well, they are wonderful beyond comparison. Inwardly, I was formed of his Spirit, a new creation in Christ, and through the knowledge of Jesus his glory is being revealed in me. At times I struggle to see who I am but he is working all good things according to his eternal purpose and it has been revealed to me that I am called according to this purpose.

now knowing because all work togther to the extent of good to the ones loved of God, the ones exsiting called (Romans 8:28)

God loves us with an everlasting love. He revealed his love to us, beginning a good work in us, and he who began a good work in us will continue it until completion. This is a great promise, for those eternally loved of God.

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