This Easter, Cling to God’s Ceaseless Love
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God’s love is the air we breathe. It’s the reason life is good and why we can expect to see His abundance. We are alive because of His love. We get to live without shame because of His love.
We also celebrate Easter because of His love. We had nothing to offer the God of the universe except our sin and all the ways we didn’t look like Him, but He loved us anyway. He loved us so much that He came as one of us and forged a way to conquer sin once and for all, so He could be with us.
Some believers don’t understand the depths of His love and the God-sized strength of what Christ did for them on the cross. They feel “shaky” in their relationship with Him and worry about committing the unpardonable sin, or they keep thinking they’ve messed up beyond the boundaries of His love.
But, beloved child of God, He has made a covenant—an everlasting bond—with us, and He will not back down from that covenant.
A Covenant, Because of Love
Covenant is how God has chosen to communicate to us, redeem us, and provide eternal life in Christ. The Old and New Testaments are actually old and new covenants—that’s what the word testament means. The Bible is a covenant document.
We catch a glimpse of this covenant in the Song of Songs, which is an allegory of God’s love for His people. This passage is at the heart of His covenant with you, individually:
Fasten me upon your heart as a seal of fire forevermore.
This living, consuming flame
will seal you as my prisoner of love.
My passion is stronger
than the chains of death and the grave,
all consuming as the very flashes of fire
from the burning heart of God.
Place this fierce, unrelenting fire over your entire being.
Rivers of pain and persecution
will never extinguish this flame.
Endless floods will be unable
to quench this raging fire that burns within you.
Everything will be consumed.
It will stop at nothing
as you yield everything to this furious fire
until it won’t even seem to you like a sacrifice anymore. (Song 8:6–7 TPT)
That’s how God feels about you. That’s why He traded Jesus for you—because His love for you blazes like a consuming fire that is stronger than death, stronger than pain and persecution, stronger than your mistakes and sins.
If you’re struggling to forgive yourself for something, let it go in faith, and choose to feel God’s powerful love for you again. Understand He’s made a covenant with you that will endure all things (1 Cor. 13:7).
Make Room for God’s Love in Your Life
“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.” (Jer. 31:33 NIV)
You are the child of God, and you can relax in His love even when you feel like you don’t deserve it.
This may feel like a risk to you, but do it anyway. Make room for His love in all your thoughts and in the rhythms of your heart. Trust His love. Take a chance with Him, and you will realize all is well. In fact, it is better than you could imagine.
Remembering God’s Covenant
I try to take communion every day. It’s a way for me to surrender to God—that is, to let go of anything that doesn’t look like Him and align myself with who He is and the thoughts and intentions of His heart. When I take communion, I thank Jesus for His amazing love, and I purposefully remember what His precious blood did for me.
I invite you to find a quiet place by yourself, and take communion there. As The Passion Translation puts it, when you take communion, you retell the story of Jesus. Think about what He’s done for you and the special ways He’s stepped into your life and changed things.
I have handed down to you what came to me by direct revelation from the Lord himself. The same night in which he was handed over, he took bread and gave thanks. Then he distributed it to the disciples and said, “Take it and eat your fill. It is my body, which is given for you. Do this to remember me.” He did the same with the cup of wine after supper and said, “This cup seals the new covenant with my blood. Drink it—and whenever you drink this, do it to remember me.”
Whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are retelling the story, proclaiming our Lord’s death until he comes. (1 Cor. 11:23–26 TPT)
As you invite Jesus to take hold of every part of your heart, you are healed and saved and made whole in Him. Be childlike in your awe and amazement of Him today.
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