The Lord Jesus says to each one of us personally, "I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you" (Jer. 31:3).
(a) That is personal, individual, intimate love; not a cold electronic thing.
(b) It's the love of a Father--our heavenly Father.
(c) As intimate, close, personal as any earthly father's love can be. Only far more so.
(d) Some dear people feel that they have never known an earthly father's love; what can the dear Lord do for them? (I knew a boy in college like that--he was having a bitter time.)
(e) But truthfully, none of us have ever had a human father who could perfectly portray the love of our heavenly Father, for us.
(f) So, let no one be the least discouraged if you have never known an earthly father's love: kneel on your knees and make a choice to BELIEVE what you cannot SEE. He will respond to that prayer!
(g) The dear heavenly Father will not forsake you or neglect your prayer; He has already loved you with "an everlasting love," now ask Him to grant you the spiritual eyesight, the discernment, to recognize the gift He has already given you.
(h) If His love is "everlasting," that means that He loved you while you were still in your mother's womb. He was working on you even then, with that love.
(i) Please read Psalm 139: it is devoted to the pre-natal influence that the Holy Spirit exerted on your behalf.
(j) The "everlasting love" of the Lord Jesus is very real; now let your own choice be to respond to that love, to thank Him for it, to ask forgiveness where you have doubted it.
(k) Such a prayer comes "out of the depths" of your soul; "Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee, O Lord" (Psalm 130:1).
(l) And immediately comes His assurance: "There is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be reverenced" (vs. 4).
(m) Now make the psalm your own; may millions of prayers rise tonight based on that blessed psalm.
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