Everlasting Love

Last night at our men's Bible study at church, the teacher said that sometimes we struggle trying to do enough to make God love us more. He pointed out that if we are His children, God loves us as much as He loves Christ. He cannot love us more. And furthermore there is nothing we can do that will cause Him to love us less. Wow!

That made me think of a couple of verses.

In John 17:23 Jesus prayed, "I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me." (Italics added)

Jeremiah 31:3 "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you."