The power of past tenses

I have loved you says the Lord|| Mal 1:2

He used past  tense-have loved- indicating he already did.  It was an action already performed. What does this mean? Should't he love us? In present form? Yes, yes he should and he does. His love is beyond past, present and future tense. It is never ending. What he means is that despite and during all our times when we were in darkness, all the times we betrayed him, offended him, hurt him; he loved us still. Through all the chaos we put ourselves through believing God was never there, in

reality we were pushing Him away- his love never ceased. Behind the have loved are all the times we chose sin instead of God. This is his power and love. So the Lord is a fighter.

 Imagine a battle scene and at the end of the battle, the bad guys have been defeated. Christ, our fighter, all wounded, bleeding, comes toward us,embraces us and says "I have loved you" -though you were the one that set the army before Him to fight he has at last reached you and you have let Him in. Stop fighting. Stop revisiting your past. He has loved you. 

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