Love That Never Runs Out

A single line can change a life: God showed His love by sending His Son so we might live through Him. From that anchor, we trace a path through paradox, pain, and renewal—how assurance and pursuit can coexist, how mercy meets us in the ruins, and how love becomes more than a word when it shapes our choices hour by hour.

We start with 1 John 4:9 and the scandal of grace: we did nothing to make God start loving us, and we can do nothing to make Him stop. That certainty frees us from performance and fuels a different kind of walk. Drawing on A.W. Tozer’s idea of the soul’s paradox of love, we explore why encountering God doesn’t end the search—it deepens it. Jeremiah 29:13 reframes the chase: seek with all your heart and you will find. Presence stirs hunger; hunger brings us closer.

Then we turn to hard days. Lamentations 3 speaks to anyone standing in the wreckage of loss or regret. Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed; His mercies are new every morning. We get practical about starting again, not as a pep talk but as a spiritual rhythm: confess, receive, reset. Along the way, we wrestle honestly with letting the old self die—the identities and attachments that no longer serve love—and we learn to trust the still small voice that guides the next right step.

This conversation lands in daily life: speaking from love, serving with integrity, choosing patience in pressure, and letting hope become a habit. If you’ve felt torn between who you were and who you’re becoming, you’ll find language, scripture, and simple practices to keep walking. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs fresh mercy today, and leave a review to help others find this message of steady, unfailing love.

Chapters

• 1:42 Food For Thought Cold Open
• 3:02 Setting The Theme: God Is Love
• 4:21 1 John 4:9 And Salvation
• 6:46 Why God’s Love Never Stops
• 8:42 Tozer And The Paradox Of Pursuit
• 11:06 Lamentations And Daily Mercy
• 13:56 Start Fresh: Hope After Failure
• 16:20 Closing Blessing And Faith Call

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 1:06

Hey guys, it's B Rob, and this is your Food for Thought advice for the day. What is the best way to avoid getting a DUI? Don't drink and drive. My name's B. Rob, and that's Food for Thought. It's the Food for Thought Faith Cast, and it is a beautiful day today. Um, I mean, as beautiful as you can get as December in Augusta, Joja, out here in Evans, Joja, which is right outside of Augusta, Joja, which is home of the James Brown, in case you did not know. And that's why I got so much funk and soul in me, because I'm from Augusta, you know what I'm saying? But don't get me started on that. We're gonna um, it's a lot going on in the world. We're not gonna talk about politics. I'll do a separate uh episode today, strictly about what's going on in the world, but we're gonna keep this one on the theme of love and how God is love and how God is the ultimate love and how we're supposed to love like God. Um looking right now at first John Um chapter four, verse nine, this is how God showed his love among us. He sent his one and only son into the world that we might live through him. That's a uh it's a big verse. It's a small verse, but it's a big verse. Um it's a short verse, but it's a big verse. It's a short verse that packs quite an enormous amount of significance. God has always been there to guide us, even when we didn't know he was doing it. He continues to assist us in ways we never realize, all because of his love for us. And as we know, he sent his only son to this world to offer us salvation. That is the only way to salvation. Many things about God are quite a mystery. We could uh we could try to understand, we can begin to try to understand the way in which he works and thinks. If there is anything at all that we can understand for sure, because there's not a whole lot, because our minds are that small, is that he loves us. And we are supposed to love him. There is nothing we could ever do to make God stop loving us, because certainly we did nothing. We did nothing to make him start loving us. We did nothing good. We are straight sinners, but God is there and he is concerned about everything we do, he is there celebrating our victories, he is there crying with us during difficult times, as we see here in 1 John 4 9, God proved his love for us long before we were even born. So, how can we not love such a father, such a God who loved us so much first? My name's B. Rob. This is food for thought. Hey guys, now I'm gonna read you a little excerpt on um A.W. Tozer's daily teachings on pursuing God. Let me pull this up real quick. And if you don't have this book, you should. It's it's it's a really good book. So this one is called the Soul's Paradox of Love. The Soul's Paradox of Love is to have found God and still pursue him. To have found God and still pursue him is the soul's paradox of love. In Jeremiah 29, verse 13, it says, You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Here A.W. Tozer describes a unique tension in the Christian life, the joy of finding God and the insatiable longing to know him more and more. This paradox is not a contradiction, but a reflection of love's true nature. When we experience God's presence, it fuels our desire to draw closer. Jeremiah's words here assure us that God is not distant, but fully accessible to those who seek him wholeheartedly. Let this truth inspire you to pursue God daily, knowing He reveals Himself to those who long for Him. Such a wonderful God, such a wonderful Father that we that we have, we should be praising every single moment of the day, like the birds, the bees, the grass, the trees. I mean, if you look at the book of Lamentations, chapter three, verses twenty-two through twenty-three, it says, Because of the Lord's great love, there we are again, that love, because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed. For his compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. Now you've heard that last long in songs, you've heard it in prayers. It's a famous verse, the words have inspired songs, prayers for generations, because they speak directly to people who feel like they've hit rock bottom. They speak to those people that are down, the ones that are broken, the ones that Jesus wants. They remind us that God's mercy does not run dry. They remind us that we have a savior in our Lord Jesus Christ. Lamentations is basically a book of grief. The author was surrounded by loss, destruction, despair. Everything in the book felt broken. Yet in the middle of all that darkness, despair, and destruction, he said something very surprising. God's love is still here. I'm gonna say that again. God's love is still here and remains true today. His compassion has never failed, his mercy is brand new with every rising of the sun. That's not denial. The writer wasn't ignoring pain, he was facing it head on, and he still chose to hold on to that hope. He still chose to hold on to that hope in God. What he discovered is something many of us long for. Even when everything falls apart, God's faithfulness does not fall apart. He remains steadfast and faithful every single time. Think about it. Every morning as you wake up, you're receiving a fresh start. Yesterday's failures do not cancel today's compassion. Do it now. God is patient, present, faithful again and again. I'm gonna say that again. God is patient, present, and faithful again and again. So let me say this. If you've ever been crushed by mistakes, grief, or hopelessness from yesterday, this verse is for you. Because God's mercy has not run out on you. Today is a new day, and his faithfulness will carry you forward. Make sure you enter your day with love. Make sure you have love in your heart, the love of Christ, the love of God. And make sure you have received Jesus in your heart as your Savior. Because he died, he rose for our sins. And that is the greatest love that any father could give his only son. Guys, I love you. God loves you. Make sure you got Jesus in your heart. It's the Food for Thought Faith Cast. Thank you for tuning in. God bless.

SPEAKER_01: 12:40

There's so much happening in the collective right now. My biggest catapult was the realization of my self-abandonment. How I've always filled everyone else's cup, but left mine half empty. All of humanity right now is in a battle between your soul and the old self that is screaming and clinging to hold on. The things that no longer serve us are being ripped away. The life that we've always known is slowly beginning to fade away. This is the point where you have to listen to that still small voice and let it guide you. I understand completely. Letting the old self die. I know how hard that is. I spent 43 years of my life building something that I let slip away in one night. Letting that old identity pass away was the biggest catapult that I have had on this journey. And I'm not completely there. I still have days where I'm trying to cling to the old version of myself. I still fight the battle day in and day out, but the entire collective right now is going through this process of letting the old self die and the new come alive. Every single cell in your body is a particle of God. Every time you speak out of love, you become the voice of God. You look in the mirror, you see the face of God. Pick up a stone, I am there. Split a piece of wood, I am there. Wherever you go, I will go also. This is the part where we become the body of Christ. We live life to help others, to shine the love that is instilled within us. That unconditional love, even when we're faced with anger, even when we're faced with frustration. That unconditional love can shine so bright within us. We're untouchable. This is where we're at right now. So listen. Let your soul guide you. Don't be a victim in this. I understand it is hard. It is painful. Knowing that some people that you love aren't meant to be on this journey with you. But know and understand that everybody that is meant to be with you is coming your way. I feel like I'm saying this every day. Hang in there. Humanity is going through the biggest moments in our evolution. And our souls are coming alive. And it is such a beautiful time to be alive. Listen to your soul. Let that still small voice guide you in every minute of every day. I love you guys. Y'all have a beautiful day.