Unfailing Love

I was visiting with my roommate the other day, having one of those long, lazy conversations that moves from subject to subject without much of a plan. I love those! Anyway, as we were chatting, I was playing with a bottle on our counter top that contains rolled up strips of paper with verses from the Psalms in it. We call it "Psalms in a Bottle." From time to time, I'd read the one I was holding out loud to her, and we'd talk about it for a minute. Then I came across one that talked about God's unfailing love, and I had a personal, spiritual epiphany. God's love does not fail.
You have no idea how badly I'd like to just stop this post there and leave you to chew on it for yourselves, but I'll unpack it the way it worked out in my head Sunday afternoon. I think I've mentioned before that I'm a "fixer" and I tend to be surrounded by "fixers" and often in our attempts to "fix" one another, we get into bigger messes in our relationships with one another than any of us ever dreamed of, muche less intended. The problem is rarely that we don't love each other enough, it's often that we love each other so much we just hardly know what to do with ourselves! :-$
As I thought about God's unfailing love, that's when it hit me. Sometimes, the messes in our relationships are because human love fails. It just does. We don't always do things correctly, even when we love, but God's love does not fail. Nothing in my life is the result of a failure in God's love for me. It is good and faithful and consistent, mighty to save. Unfailing. There's never been a time when God just loved me so much he couldn't help meddling and ended up making a mess of my life. He's never taken his eyes off of me for just a second so that in the absence of his care, I was in danger. He's never accidentally allowed anything to come into my life out of a failure to keep me. His love does not fail.
Today, I read Exodus 15:13. Check it out ...

"In your unfailing love you will lead
the people you have redeemed.
In your strength you will guide them
to your holy dwelling."