I woke up in the wee hours of the morning and decided to look for emails and text messages. When this happens I more often than I like to admit, toss and turn and fret about the lack of sleep. So this time, I thought I was using the time more efficiently! After about a half hour of inane searching, I turned to one of my morning devotionals, Charles Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening. “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” Jer. 31:3. Boom! Did God just drop the mike! My body relaxed and a smile widened my face and I felt joy and contentment. Wow! You can’t tell me that God is not good! The back story is Jeremiah, prophet of God, is telling Israel that God loves them and He will reunite them and redeem them. In effect He is lovingly reminding them that He is a God who keeps promises and He gives us promises so that we can rest in Him, knowing that He is faithful. This same everlasting love that He proclaimed over Israel, He proclaims over all believers in Jesus Christ. How often do we long to hear those words, “I love you”. God of the universe, Creator of everything created cares enough to tell us that He loves us! His love is not dependent on circumstances, what I do or don’t do, or even time! His love will not fail and it’s for eternity! I ask myself, what am I waiting for? He is smitten, I am smitten. He has shown me how He feels. How can I resist Him. I think of the poem, “How do I love thee, let me count the ways”. I don’t remember any more of the poem, but the point being, I want to be as the poet(Elizabeth Barrett Browning) and think about and express my love to Him. My LORD, my Savior, my King, my Daddy, my Ishi(husband), my Friend! His love makes my whole body melt into warm gooey caramel sauce! His love makes me giggle when He whispers to me that I am “fearfully and wonderfully made”. Ps. 139:14. And when I am fretting and forgetting that he is Ever Present, He tells me that, “I will never leave you nor forsake you”. Heb. 13:5. Tears come to my eyes when I am reminded that He loved me so much that He sent His only Son, to die for me. And in believing in Him, His death, burial and resurrection I will be with Him and love Him for eternity! Yes indeedy, God is good!