“’With everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,’ says the Lord your Redeemer” (Isaiah 54:8). “In love, He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ” (Ephesians 1:5).
This loving kindness has its origin in the heart of the eternal God.
It continues for all eternity as we are brought into our full enjoyment
of “the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints” (Ephesians 1:18).
It is to this everlasting love that we make our appeal when we call
upon the Name of the Lord: “Out of the goodness of Your love, deliver me
... Help me, O Lord my God, save me in accordance with Your love” (Psalm 109:21,26).
" ... Will you ... come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, We are safe" - safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears My Name become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord" (Jeremiah 7:8-11). “God demands a conversion of the mind and heart as the basis of peace and security (cf. Is 26:3), not the superstitious veneration of a stone building or a traditionally sacred site” ( R K Harrison , Jeremiah ).
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