Jeremiah 31:3 I have loved you with an everlasting love.
John 6: 44-45 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me
Ephesians 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will
Psalms 103: 17 But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children,
2 Timothy 1:9 who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
What made God’s gift of His Son “indescribable,” as Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 9:15? It was preceded by elaborate preparation, it was missed by many because of its simple appearance, and finally, it was occasioned by unparalleled love. Luke 2:13-14 says, “And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.’” More than anything else about God, Christmas tells us that God loves us. It does not matter who you are, it does not matter what you have done, God does not hate you. He loves you. One of the most powerful images of God in the Old Testament is that of the wounded lover. In Jeremiah 31:3 God said, “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” Yet we have wandered away from God, allowing other people and other things to take His rightful place in our lives. But even though we have spurned God’s love and He has every right to write us off, He did not do that. God so wanted a relationship with you that He sent Christ to make you clean again so that you could have eternal fellowship with Him. God’s gift was based on unparalleled love. (Dr. Jeffress)
The story of Christmas fills up all chapters of Scripture because the entire Bible is the story of the eternal, infinite, loving, holy Creator-God who became an actual Man in order to die for us, save us, and give us access to Himself and to His heaven. Of all the mysteries of time and space, this is the deepest, the sweetest, and the richest. We can experience it, enjoy it, celebrate it, and live in its joy. But we can never fully fathom the heights of its wonder, the width of its inclusion, the depths of its impregnability, or the length of its duration. We can only say, “Hallelujah!” (Dr. Jeremiah)
