Every once in a while, I go back to that day. I had already just had a miscarriage, then I got a pulmonary embolism, then, I was hospitalized for severe anemia (due to obsessive blood loss). This happened within a three-month time frame. Three hard months. Though the scariest day during that time, was when I lay there dying in that hospital bed. With weak, shaky hands, I was signing a paper that gave them permission to save me; if my blood transfusions didn’t go well. Fortunately, they did. I can think about the difficulties during those times, or I can choose to see God’s provisions and His goodness during them. His comfort with my grieving heart, his perfect timing with my embolism, the blood transfusions, from two very generous donors, that saved my life. It is easy at times to get caught in the cycle of hard. Though if we look, we can see God’s goodness in it. It is there where we find comfort even in our sorrows, peace in our hardships, and healing in what ails us. God never promises it would always be easy, but He did promise to never leave us, or forsake us. So many times, in my life I have saw firsthand, that His promises are true. Friend, even when life isn’t feeling positive, we can be positively assured of God’s constant love for us. I go back to that day; I watched as someone else’s blood went into me. As that blood saved me that day, it His blood that saves me even still. Though those times may have been hard, what was revealed was the constant love of God.

Erin Fitts-Brower 

Constant love of God

Deuteronomy 31:6

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Jeremiah 31:3 NIV

The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.