05/05/2024 – “From the Days of Forever”. (Day 219)
As a reminder, the daily format throughout the 365 day devotional – “The Book of Mysteries” by Jonathan Cahn, is a discussion between a student and a mentor teacher:
“It was dawn. We had spent the night on top of a desert mountain. Though the sun was not yet visible, we would now see its red-orange glow in the distance.
‘Do you ever wonder about God’s love,’ asked the teacher, ‘if His love for you will endure… if it will outlast your sins, or if your sins will will exhaust it? Have you ever wondered about his faithfulness to you, if it will always be there … if it will always keep you no matter what?’
‘I guess I have,’ I said.
‘It is written in the Psalms: ‘The lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who embrace Him.’ The word translated as lovingkindness is the Hebrew word khesed. Khesed speaks not only of God’s merciful, tender love, but of His faithful love, the love of God that doesn’t let go. But what it goes on to say about that love is amazing: ‘The faithful love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who reverence Him.’ Do you realize what it’s saying? His tender and faithful love for you is from everlasting. In other words, He doesn’t only love you now. He loved you before you were.’
‘How?’ I asked.
‘He’s God. Did He now know you before you existed? A year before you existed? Ten years before you existed? He has always known you. For ages before you existed, He has known you. And if He loves you now, it could not have been any different then. God has loved you, tenderly, mercifully, and faithfully … from everlasting. How long has He loved you? For an eternity! It has already traveled an eternity to reach you.’
‘But then how could it ever have reached me?’
‘You can’t fathom eternity.’ said the teacher, ‘nor can you fathom His love, except to know that His love for you is greater than eternity … and to know the answer to the question… Will God’s love for you ever cease or give up? The answer is no. God’s love for you has already spanned the length of eternity. It has already lasted forever. For the love of God is, to you who reverence Him … from everlasting to everlasting … from forever to forever…’
The mission: Ponder the love of God has for you that has already endured for an eternity, and will not cease or fail you now. Live accordingly.
Psalm 103:17; Jeremiah 31:3; Micah 5:2
The From Forever Redemption