June 28, 2026 Devo

One of the things I spent time thanking God for today, as I walked, was how relentless He has been in His love for me. He chased after me when I was running the other way. He kept calling, even when I wasn’t listening. He kept trying to get my attention when I was focused on pursuing other things. It reminded me that God is not only faithful, but He is tireless. He is relentless in His desire for us.
That relentlessness is pointed out again and again in Scripture. When the world became exceedingly wicked, and there was only one man worth saving, God didn’t quit. He used Noah and his family to start again. When God saw how wicked Sodom and Gomorrah had become and decided to enact judgment upon them, He allowed Abraham to intercede for them. In fact, God allowed Abraham to talk Him down from finding 50 righteous men to only finding 10. Why? He is relentless in His desire to save us. When the Israelites doubted God and disobeyed Him again and again in the wilderness, God didn’t give up on them. He kept leading, providing, protecting, and correcting all the way to the Promised Land. All because of His Relentless Love.
You don’t catch it easily, but that same relentless nature of God is found in our passage today. It says that our Lord gave messages to Jeremiah. What were those messages for? We’ll discover that they were meant to AWAKEN God’s People, to WARN them, and to CALL THEM back to the Lord. God’s People had chosen their own way. They had forgotten the God who had chosen them and called them by His Name. But the Lord had not forgotten them. When God started speaking through Jeremiah, it says from the “thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah…until the eleventh year of the reign of King Zedekiah.” That is a 40 to 50-year span! Think about that. God used Jeremiah for DECADES to call His People back to repentance. That’s tenacious, relentless love!
God loves you, my friend. He is not only faithful TO you, He is also relentlessly chasing after you. He wants you to experience all He has to offer you. He wants you to know the fullness of His grace, the fullness of His presence, and the fullness of the life that’s possible when it’s lived in intimacy and obedience to Him. So run if you want to, but God won’t quit. Hide if you think it’ll help, but He will find you. God will never stop chasing after you until you are finally, completely His. He is RELENTLESS. That’s God’s Word for you today.