When Gillian learned one Saturday morning that her daughter had been killed, she was plunged into despair. For 18 months she pleaded with God for help in her grief. “I’ve been told that God is love. Why won’t He show me His love?” she wrote.

Then in October 1981, Gillian experienced what she refers to as “a small miracle—a tiny glow of warmth deep in my soul, which grew to an all-consuming love—the love of Jesus.” “Dear Jesus,” she said, “my search to find You has led me down many paths, but when the right time came You showed me the way.”

Gillian’s search ended when she found Christ as her Savior, but her need for Him had only begun. A few months later, her husband started having an affair. Their 20-year marriage eventually ended in divorce. “I’ve failed many times,” she wrote, “but I know God’s love for me is real, and I hold on to the knowledge that I am loved by Him.”

The apostle Paul came to know God’s love on the road to Damascus (Acts 9). And over the years he too found it to be unfailing. Nothing else could account for the amazing words he penned in today’s Scripture reading.

Are you searching for God’s unfailing love? It’s available if you will seek Him with all your heart.

  — Dennis J. De Haan