God’s Love Never Runs Out
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🗓️ 27 April 2025
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Summary
When Josie’s ill and aging father moved in with her, she felt overwhelmed by the daily needs of caring for him. The medications she needed to buy were expensive. The caregiving tasks and the wisdom needed to guide her decision-making for his worsening health condition, aside from her “full-time” job, were wearing her down. She said, “How could I keep gathering and giving out strength, practical resources, wisdom, and love?”
Josie found hope in Lamentations, a book about the grief Jeremiah and God’s people felt. Jerusalem had been destroyed by the Babylonians, and the Jews now faced the uncertain days of exile ahead. The suffering was overwhelming, but God promised that “because of [His] great love we are not consumed” (Lamentations 3:22). His covenant love would remain with them, even if they were no longer in the promised land: “for his mercies never cease” (v. 22 nlt).
God’s love for His children has no limits. “God is my portion, my personal source of everything,” Josie realized, echoing verse 24. “I can gather and give out what’s needed each day because I draw my strength from Him, whose love never runs out.”
As we live in obedience to God, we can have hope, no matter what lies ahead. In His perfect wisdom, He knows what we need and will provide for us as He sees best.
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| 0:00.0 | His mercies never cease. Lamentations chapter 3, verse 22. |
| 0:07.5 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Our reading, God's love never runs out, |
| 0:14.6 | was written by Karen Huang and read by Joyce Dinkins. |
| 0:21.5 | Lamentations chapter 3, verses 19 through 26. |
| 0:27.2 | I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. |
| 0:33.9 | I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. |
| 0:39.3 | Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope. |
| 0:44.9 | Because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed. |
| 0:49.2 | For his compassion's never fail. |
| 0:52.3 | They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, |
| 1:00.7 | the Lord is my portion, therefore I will wait for him. The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, |
| 1:10.3 | to the one who seeks him. It is good to wait quietly |
| 1:15.1 | for the salvation of the Lord. God's love never runs out, written by Karen Huang. |
| 1:30.6 | When Josie's ill and aging father moved in with her, she felt overwhelmed by the daily needs of caring for him. |
| 1:39.0 | The medications she needed to buy were expensive. |
| 1:42.6 | The caregiving tasks and the wisdom needed to guide her decision-making |
| 1:46.8 | for his worsening health condition, aside from her other full-time job, were wearing her down. |
| 1:54.0 | She said, how could I keep gathering and giving out strength, practical resources, wisdom, and love? |
| 2:04.3 | Josie found hope in lamentations, |
| 2:11.8 | a book about the grief Jeremiah and God's people felt. Jerusalem had been destroyed by the Babylonians, and the Jews now faced the uncertain days of exile ahead. The suffering was overwhelming, but God promised in Chapter 3 |
| 2:22.4 | that, because of His great love, we are not consumed. His covenant love would remain with them, |
| 2:32.4 | even if they were no longer in the promised land. |
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