Blake Long

Do you regularly ponder God’s love for you? Furthermore, do you meditate on the fact that His love for you is steadfast? Does that concept even remotely sit with you, or do you feel so burdened down by your sins and failures that you can’t fathom the possibility of God’s steadfast love for you?

Sam Storms, in his latest book The Steadfast Love of the Lord: Experiencing the Life-Changing Power of God’s Unchanging Affections published by Crossway, points the reader to just that: God’s steadfast love.

With precision, joy, humor, and most importantly biblical fidelity, Storms takes the reader on many different journeys highlighting the several ways God’s steadfast love expresses itself.

Storms writes,

The highest mountain in Switzerland is more akin to a feather being blown in the wind when set alongside the steadfastness of God’s love. The Father’s love for his children is immutable, unchangeable, enduring, unyielding, unalterable, constant, undeviating, and eternally fixed.

We can count on God’s steadfast love. It’s not fickle or indifferent. It’s not wishy-washy or here one day and gone the next. God loves us with steadfast love. Storms gives practical examples of steadfast to help the reader understand. “Even if you can’t define the word ‘steadfast,’ you know it when you see it,” he writes. “It appears when the person you called on the phone for advice actually answers and helps. You see it when a friend shows up at the emergency room to check on you after a devastating car wreck. Steadfast has meaning and substance when your rent comes due and you can’t pay it but your buddy happily places a check in your hand that will cover this month and the next two as well.”

Throughout his work, Storms touches on the “look” and “touch” of God’s steadfast love seen through different circumstances of Jesus’s life. He writes on how God’s steadfast love is expressed through His sovereignty.

Jesus loved his own in the midst of their weakness, im-maturity, ignorance, and brokenness. And he loves you in the midst of yours as well! As his eyes glanced around the room, he saw men whose failures were obvious, yet he loved them. There was Matthew who probably still struggled with greed, who perhaps still lamented leaving such a high paying job to follow Jesus. Then there was Andrew, possibly dealing with lingering resentment against his brother Peter for being so prominent among the disciples and being chosen to be part of the inner circle. And I hardly need to comment on Peter’s repeated failures and impulsive actions. Jesus knew them all. He knew everything about them. He knew things deep in their souls that not even they had discovered: their secret sins, fears, and longings.

This is a phenomenal book by Storms and I highly recommend it.

I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.