“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.” [Jeremiah 31:3]
WE ALL LOVE A LOVE STORY. That’s because we were created to give and receive love. We were made for intimacy.
Yet most of us know more about the absence of intimacy than the reality of it. From earliest childhood we have sought to fill that vacuum, craving closeness, warmth, and affection. We long to know that we matter to someone, that someone cares, that someone who really knows us still loves us. However, even in the best of families and human relationships, the most we are able to do is somewhat dull that sense of longing. No one on this earth can completely satisfy it.
That’s because the God who created this hole in our hearts is the only One who can fill it. In the Scriptures we encounter a God who moves toward us, who seeks to draw us to Himself, who knows us intimately, and who invites us to know Him in the same way.
From start to finish, the Word of God is actually one incredible love story. And wonder of wonders, it is a story that has your name and mine in it. Whether you grew up in church or in no church at all, whether your background is “respectable” or admittedly tainted, whether you’re well-versed in the Bible or are just now getting acquainted with it—there is room in this love story for you.
Those who drink from the deep wells of His divine love have always found in Him the nearness their soul craves. May each day you spend in His Word and His presence slake your thirst for intimacy with the Creator-Lover—the One who fills that needy hole in our hearts with Himself.
Have you experienced the inability of human relationships to satisfy the deepest longings of your soul? Thank God for His everlasting love, nearness, and faithfulness. Ask Him to satisfy your heart with His love. [Quiet Place]
