Even those things that we thought would never be able to change. Mt. Everest is growing at the rate of five centimetres a year so it is already 2.5 metres taller than when I was a child and learned that fact from my wonderful “Boy’s Handbook” (I wish I still had that great book). But on the other hand, we know all about erosion, particularly of our coast.

God’s love is more stable and lasting even than the mountains and the coastal cliffs. It will remain forever, never to be eroded away. When God commits himself to us, that commitment will never be broken.

The love of God is revealed to the world in Jesus Christ. In the New Testament we read how great that love is. In 1 Corinthian’s 13 we read that “do not have love, we gain nothing. Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”

In the letter to the Romans: “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8: 38-39). What marvellous news! It is something upon which to base our lives. We can live with confidence each day, knowing that God’s love remains with us forever.