Jeremiah 31:3
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
St. Thomas once observed that if God wished to destroy the universe he would not have to do anything. He would have to stop doing something. The whole of Creation continues in existence from one millisecond to the next because it is God’s very present pleasure that it do so. In the same way, our blessing (though it may sometimes not feel like a blessing) is that God is, at all times, pouring down on the heads of each and every one of us the entirety of his love. Some people have the notion that they must do something to “get” God to love them. This is something like thinking we have to do something to “get” the fires of the sun to burn. The fact is, we cannot get God to love us more because he already loves us with the eternal intensity that each person of the Trinity has for each of the other persons of the Trinity. “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you,” says Jesus. And that is why God’s faithfulness goes on too. Nothing can quench the love of God. Nothing can deter him from actively willing your beatitude. Nothing can block that, except your own refusal of that love. Open yourself to that and no power in heaven or earth can prevent you from knowing eternal happiness.
