Everlasting Love

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 21, 1904

THE love of God for his children is not a mere passing sentiment, dependent upon circumstances, changing with the change of outward conditions. His assurance unto us is, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” This love never fails.

“Down to lowest depths it reaches, The all-loving Father’s arm; Toward his rebel children yearning, Drawing them with magic charm; Till the yielding spirits move, Touched by everlasting love.”

The outworking of this love is seen in the gift of the only-begotten Son. “In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.” Love is the very nature of God, for “God is love,” and “the eternal God” is everlasting love. No finite mind can comprehend such love or measure its fulness, but we can all share in its wondrous blessings.

“What boundless love did Jesus show!— I can not tell, nor fully know, What grief, what agony, and woe, He bore to set me free.

“Yet may my lips tell forth his fame, My voice sing out his worthy name, My sinful heart his mercy claim, And trust his boundless love.”