7 Biblical Truths about God’s Unchanging Love to Encourages Us in a Weary World

Because God’s love is based on his nature and character, and he has no end or beginning, then his love lasts forever. 

Jeremiah 31:3 declares this truth. “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” 

Everything in this world changes. In such a shifting world, we desire and need something that endures. God’s love stands firm when other loves fail or end. His compassion for us doesn’t rise and fall with our emotions, our failings, or the world events. Instead, God gives us a love which will never end, rooted in his character and being. 

When life feels overwhelming and discourages our souls, we often make the mistake of fearing God’s love might stop at some point. Relationships and jobs end. But God’s love doesn’t. 

Jeremiah reminds us God’s love has no expiration date. He loved his people before they ever repented, and he loves us even when we feel distant, discouraged, or drained. 

God’s eternal kindness means he will give us good things in this life and especially in the life to come. This invites us back into hope. Even when the world feels heavy, God’s enduring love becomes an anchor that doesn’t give way. 

As we experience God’s everlasting love, we can share the same love with others. They need a hope beyond this world, too. We can speak the truth of God’s enduring, heavenly love and call them to the only secure hope.

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Along with his eternal nature, God’s character doesn’t change. No part of him becomes less or more over time. And this includes his love. 

Malachi 3:6 declares this. “I the Lord do not change.” Just like things in our world end, they also change. Plans fall apart, people disappoint us, and our own emotions fluctuate from day to day. Yet we long for something or someone we can count on, someone good who doesn’t change. 

We find this in God’s unchanging character. He becomes a refuge we can run to. As part of his character, his love remains consistent because he himself remains consistent. He doesn’t love us more or less over time. What he said true yesterday is still true today, and it will remain so. 

Humanity wasn’t made to be the absolute. We were created to rest in and rely upon the Creator, and our existence depends upon his. The secure foundation we desire and need is found only in the Father. 

When we see the world change around us, we may wonder whether God’s patience or love has diminished. Malachi reminds us we shouldn’t doubt his love. The God who loved Israel with covenant faithfulness is the same God who loves us now in the new, better covenant. 

Others also long for such a love, and we can declare God’s unchanging love through our word and actions, loving and forgiving despite people’s sin or mistakes. Let us share his eternal, unchanging love with such a weak and weary world.

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God initiated salvation. Without his decision and action, we would not have sought him out. When we choose him, he’s already wooed our hearts with truth and compassion. 

“We love because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19).

Before we reached for God, he reached for us. Before we took a step toward him, he had already moved toward us with mercy and grace. It started with him. 

After the Fall in Genesis, the chasm between us and God is too great for us to traverse. The only way we can know him is if he chooses to reveal himself and gives grace to choose him. When we feel rejected and forgotten, we might wonder if God does the same with us. However, God’s love never depended on our strength in the first place. 

His love came before our disobedience or obedience, faith or rejection of him. His kindness flows from his own heart and remains constant. We don’t need to win God’s affection – we already have it; we simply need to believe and trust it to live a different life. 

People around us also feel rejected and forgotten, and we can share God’s love by choosing to love them unconditionally, by reaching out and speaking and acting like they aren’t forgotten, either. Let us express God’s intentional love by doing the same for others.

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If he chose us from his heart and character, then nothing can separate us from his love. God doesn’t love from a distance. He desires reconciliation and intimate knowing. He will never leave us alone. 

Yet we feel alone, often. The apostle Paul shares a comforting truth in Romans 8:39 that nothing “in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” No circumstance, no darkness, and no power on earth or heaven can pull us away from his personal, relational love for us 

In seasons of discouragement, we also feel disconnected from God, even abandoned. Perhaps we assume our struggles push him away or doubts disappoint him. Yet even when or if we are unfaithful, God remains faithful. The Old Testament continually reveals how God remained faithful to his covenant even when Israel outright rejected him. 

Again, our feelings don’t determine reality. People can feel alone in a room full of people. Just because we don’t feel Christ near doesn’t mean he’s left us. He promises to never abandon us (Hebrews 13:5). We can trust that he remains close and near, amazingly one with us through the Spirit, regardless of how we feel. 

As this truth comforts us, we can comfort others, too. God isn’t far from anyone (Acts 17:27), and many feel alone. Let us express a God who draws near and offers life and comfort to all who believe. 

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We know how much something is worth by what others will pay. When selling an item, we can search how much others have sold it for. 

God paid the highest possible price for our salvation — himself. That’s how much he valued our reconciliation with himself. “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). God didn’t just talk about his love or feel love from far off. His love is active, and he gave the best evidence for his love. He sent Jesus. 

When the deadly storm raged, and the disciples found Jesus asleep, they wondered if he even cared whether they lived or died. When we face difficult times and God feels distant, we can wonder the same. But the cross and the blood of Jesus speak differently. 

The Father sent the Son when we were lost, broken, and unable to save ourselves. God saw our need and acted with self-sacrifice and compassion. He gave his son from abundant love (John 3:16), all so we could be forgiven, restored, and be eternally reconciled to him. That’s how much we are worth to him. 

The cross must be central to the gospel we preach and declare. God loves and values every person that much, and all people need to hear about the Father who loves them so abundantly.

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Often, due to difficulties, we feel like we can’t make it. We want to quit or find some sort of relief from the troubles. 

God calls us to a life we can’t walk in our own power. We require divine strength to walk a divine path. But he’s not setting us up for failure. He grants us his strength through grace and the Spirit. In our weakness, we find he is strong.

“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-23).

The world drains and burdens us. We can trust God’s great love to sustain us and renew us daily. 

Most of life happens in the day-to-day moments, not in the big, epic ones. Constant pain and struggle wear us down. We fear we’ve reached the end of our endurance. Even if we have, we can rely upon his inexhaustible power and strength. His mercy rises over us each morning, ever new.

The world around us devolves into chaos, what scientists call entropy. Things always break down. But in Christ, all things are constantly being made new. The outward person perishes but the inward experiences renewal every day (2 Corinthians 4:16).

Our neighbors and community are filled with people discouraged by the entropy and chaos surrounding them. We can give them hope to walk in the newness of life now, a foretaste of the eternal reality waiting for those who trust in Christ.

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We serve a promise making and keeping God. 

Moses preached to Israel, “Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations to those who love him and keep his commandments” (Deuteronomy 7:9). His covenant goes beyond a contract; it’s a promise for redemption and eternal good. 

The weary world tempts us to despair. We encounter so much tragedy and pain, we start to believe there’s no hope for a future good. However, current circumstances are temporary. In classic tales, the hero always encounters dark moments just before the victory. 

God’s telling an eternal, redemptive narrative, and he’s invited us to participate in it. We shouldn’t treat the middle of the story like the end. The cross and tomb wasn’t the end. He rose again. 

In the same way, God promises goodness and blessing, both in this world and the next. Ultimately, the Bible says all things (not half or most, not only good) will work together for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28). It may not look like it now, but he will keep his promise. He’s kept it before. 

We live in and engage a world filled with people in despair, individuals and even communities who have lost hope. They may have given up, but we can provide them with the truth of God’s love through his promises, to help them experience transformation and meaning today and forever.

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