Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths. You care for people and animals alike, O LORD. How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings. Psalms 36:5-7 NLT

I love the imagery of these verses from Psalm 36. David is singing to the Lord, comparing each attribute of God to a part of His glorious creation. But I think my favorite one is imagining that God’s love covers, protects, and provides a safe place for us under the shadow of His “wings”. God’s love is never ending. It’s not based on our performance, but solely on His character, His unfailing love which is always with us. God’s love for us is priceless because it is given freely.

 As we celebrate Valentine’s Day this week, l thought it would be the perfect time to focus on all of the ways that the Lord’s everlasting love, His unfailing love, touches each of us.

We may have big things that God has blessed us with like family and kids and genuine friends, a supportive church family, comfortable homes and steady jobs and sustenance. But do we daily look for the small things that might be a blessing from God, as He demonstrates His everlasting love for us? You know me well enough to know that I love beautiful sunrises and vibrant sunsets. I embrace each as a gift, a love blessing from the Lord.

Let’s look at our biggies first. But then, each day, let’s search carefully for those small and perhaps often overlooked blessings of God’s love. Sometimes it might just be a safe day of running errands, finding that perfect gift for someone, or even that short moment of peace and joy as we turn our burdens and worries over to the Lord. It might even be a blocked path that, only later, we realize was God’s love guiding us away from our choice and into His will.

This week I challenge each of us to make a “God’s Everlasting Love” list. It can be in a journal, or note cards, or strips of paper, or even on a refrigerator marker board. Let’s discover all the ways God’s unfailing, everlasting love surrounds, protects, comforts, and blesses! Thankfulness and awareness of God’s steadfast love in our daily lives brings joy!

We love each other because he loved us first. 1 John 4:19  As a result of God’s love in our lives, we can look at those around us, whom God also created and loves, and share His love: a smile, a kind word, a blessing, a prayer, a moment to help, showing generosity in our time and resources, listening and caring, and forgiveness.

I thank God for each of you! My first entry on my list! And I thank you for joining me this week as we embrace our God’s everlasting, unfailing love each and every day, and choose to share it with others.

Blessings multiplied as we live in God’s love and share His love with others!!