Question1: "Where can I find lasting love?"

I want to address one question that I believe every person is asking - a question for which Jesus is the only answer: Where can I find lasting love?  These words are written all over the pages of human history.  From poems to love songs to movies to relationships, it rings clearly from every heart: "Who will love me and keep loving me?"  It's amazing to me how often this question surfaces in popular music specifically.  Music gives us unusually transparent glimpses into the insecurities of a person's soul, and popular music can be very revealing in terms of the questions people are asking.  For example, on Christina Perri's album, "Lovestrong," 10 out of 12 songs explore the emotions surrounding her unmet expectations for love. In these songs, Perri expresses a desire to be loved, vulnerability and hope that her love will stay with her, sorrow and disillusionment when her love leaves, angry tirades against her love, desire for revenge, celebrations when her x-love suffers like she did, and finally, hope that her love will return. 

Whether it's a movie, a song or a Hollywood story, we can see everywhere that people aren't getting out of love what they want.  It's not that there's anything wrong with love.  No, the problem is where we're searching for love.  We get frustrated and angry when our desires go unmet by the people in our lives, but the reason we continue to experience this gamete of negative emotions is because we continue to expect of people what only God can provide. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says that God has planted "eternity" in every human heart.  The reason our longing for "lasting love" can't be met by this world is because nothing in this world lasts.  It's like trying to squeeze orange juice from a rock or pound nails with a shoe.  The world is not suited to meet our eternal desires precisely because the world is not eternal.

But God is eternal! And as Stephen Charnock writes, "Since God is eternal, he has eternal power to match his word.  His promises are established upon his eternity, so they are solid ground for our trust... Men may break their promises, but God who inhabits eternity will never change."  It's good to find a person who cares, but far too often they're unable to help us.  Furthermore, there are many who are able to help, but they're often unwilling. In Jesus, we find One who not only has infinite knowledge of our needs, but he has the willingness and eternal power to meet them.  Remember that it was Jesus who said to his people, "I have loved you with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself" (Jeremiah 31:3).  This is why I believe that Jesus alone is the answer to the question, "Where can I find lasting love?"