Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains may depart
and the hills be removed,
but my steadfast love shall not depart from you,
and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Of all the truths we can discover in God's Word, perhaps the most repeated and most profound is the fact that God loves us unconditionally and once His love is upon us, NOTHING can separate us from that Love. In the section of Isaiah the prophet is telling us about the suffering of Jesus and what that means for us. This the Gospel stated in Old Testament terms. The Gospel is Jesus' love for us, that is so vast, He would die for us. What God is affirming for us in the above verse is that IF the mountains simply disappeared and the hills were completely removed, a task that could not and would not happen without His will, even then, the love He has directed toward us and the covenant He has made with us, CAN'T depart. Paul took this theme at the end of his great writing on justification and just before he would outline election, sated it this way:
Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Neither our sin, Satan's activities, the worldly system, or even our inward guilt and condemnation can cause the covenant He made with us (before the foundation of the world ... Ephesians 1) can cause His love to be removed from us. In this life we may have a spouse "stop" loving us. We may have children "divorce" us. We might have friends desert us. But, God is steadfast in his love and strong in His covenant. He is never yielding in His compassion He has placed upon us. Love continues to hold us, even when we fail Him. The truth is that God can't stop loving us based upon our actions, because He never started loving us based upon our actions. He loved us because He so willed it. We are now His based upon HIS love for us, not OUR love for Him. Rejoice today in His steadfast, unmovable love.
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