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Your Faithful Love Never Ends

Pain is a funny thing, isn't it? I mean, if you're anything like me, then you just want it to end the moment it starts. Same with sorrow, in my experience. Yet, there's beauty and wisdom to be found in pain and sorrow.

Before I gave my life to Papa, I lived and struggled with severe depression for more than 20 years. Sometimes it could last for 2 or 3 years on end. I couldn't remember what it was like to be happy Why was I even alive? It completely drained me.

God freed me from all that. I don't believe God gives depression to anyone, but God can work through anything for good.

In retrospect, without the depression, I probably would not have ended up making music. In those struggles, I learned a lot about myself. I discovered my faults and my weaknesses, I learned to be compassionate, and empathetic and it gave me a big love for the misfits, people, and animals alike. Most people hide from their feelings or emotions in these sorrowful moments and deny themselves the chance to become a more complete human being. You see, despair is tied strongly to hope.

In the book of Lamentations, Jeremiah identifies himself with the pain of his people. Jeremiah knew that however gruesome his circumstances and those of his people (Jerusalem and Israel), he knew AND reminded himself that God's faithful love never ends. This reminder is for you as well. He has not forgotten about you. It's just that sometimes the sunrise takes a bit longer than we'd like. Search for the glimmer of hope in whatever circumstances you find yourself in.

So, for those people in need of Hope, I've written these scriptures in the first person so you too can sing it as a personal prayer, to the One Who hears you and cares so, so deeply for you. Even if you don't see it right now, you will one day. I promise, His faithful love never ends.

Lamentations 1 / 3 - Your Faithful Love Never Ends

Lamentations 1

2. Among all my lovers, there is no one left to comfort me.
All my friends have betrayed me and become enemies.

2. I cry myself to sleep each night, tears soaking my pillow.
No one’s left among my lovers to sit and hold my hand.

20. “O God, look at the trouble I’m in!

Lamentations 3

21. I remember, I keep a grip on hope

22.Your love couldn't have run out,
Your love couldn't have dried up.

22. Your faithful love never ends!

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Song by Xander Stok, Project of Love.
Words from The Message Translation (MSG), except for:
Verse 1:2 (Among all … my enemies) and 3:22 (Your … ends!) from the New Living Translation (NLT)

Note from the author: I have adjusted the pronouns into 'I' and 'my' so the song can be sung as a personal prayer.