"And, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen." (Matthew 28:20)

 

A favorite old song of many senior citizens (of this writer, at least) is the sentimental "I'll be loving you--always" ballad written long ago by Irving Berlin. The sincerity of some who sing it may be questioned, but the many "always" promises of the Bible really mean it. Consider a few of these precious promises, for example.

 

The apostle Paul urges believers to be "always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord"). And to the same Corinthian church he later wrote: "Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ".

 

Then there is that other tremendous promise in the same epistle: "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work".

 

The greatest such promise is that in our text, when the Lord Jesus Christ Himself promised that "I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." To me that is words of encouragement, to know that no matter what I might face in this life time, my Savior is right there with me. Like the David the Psalmist said whether I make my bed in hell or in heaven also shall my Father be, bottom line nothing can separate us from the Love of the Father,  Thank you so much, for loving us even when we were yet your enemies, thank you so much for doing for us that which we could not do ourselves.