I’ll Always Love You

Long ago the LORD said to Israel: “I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love, I have drawn you to myself.                                                                                                         Jeremiah 31:3

Until I was a parent, I’m not sure I completely understood this concept. Until I was a parent, I did not completely appreciate the promise that God gives to us that he loves us with an “everlasting love”.

I recently saw a couple who told me about a situation where their teenage son came out to them that he was gay. It was obviously hard for him to do. They handled it with grace and understanding, and because they did, they found a new level of acceptance and understanding of one another.

I told them that they had done a beautiful job in accepting their son at the most vulnerable time of his life. Their words to their son were, “there is noting that you can ever do to make us ever stop loving you”.

True words. These are words I say to my own children, and the words that God says to us. He loves us right where we are, and he will never stop. This is the message that we need to reinforce with our children.

“I’ll always love you”…

Prayer: How can we understand your love for us? You gave us the model of loving our own children to understand it. Thank you for that plan, Amen