“I have loved you with an everlasting love;

therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you…

Thus says the LORD,

who gives the sun for light by day

and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,

who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—

the LORD of hosts is his name:

“If this fixed order departs

from before me, declares the LORD,

then shall the offspring of Israel cease

from being a nation before me forever.”

Jeremiah 31:3, 35-36

As I sat on the floor of my bedroom with my Bible flipped open to Jeremiah 31, I read this passage and was struck by the amazing love God has for His people.  I looked out my window at the sun creeping up over the trees in my backyard and thought to myself, “Just as the sun rises each morning without me having to worry about it or question whether or not it will rise again tomorrow or the next day, so has God’s constant and unfailing love been set upon me and it will never cease to be.” 

The shining sun, the moon and the stars are a constant reminder of God’s faithfulness to His unfaithful people.  If any one of those ever ceased to illuminate the sky then we would have reason to question the constancy of God’s love.  But so far, for the twenty-one years I’ve lived on earth, the sun, the moon and the stars have always taken their place in the sky at the proper time.  I have no reason to think that they will forget their place or decide to take the day off.   Neither do I have reason to think that God’s love for me will ever fade. 

May the sunrise in the morning and the moon and stars in the night sky remind you that God’s amazing love is the same today as it was yesterday and as it will be tomorrow and forevermore.  The covenant He made with His people of unconditional and everlasting love will never fail.