Charles Spurgeon Commentary Jeremiah 31:3

"Jehovah appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee." — Jeremiah 31:3 (ASV)

The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

There is the source of everything that is good and gracious: "everlasting love." When God has once set that love upon His people, anything and everything that is for their good may come out of it; all temporal good and all eternal blessings will come out of everlasting love. Oh, that we might each one of us have grace to apply these blessed words to ourselves: I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. They were given to Israel of old, but the spiritual Israel possesses all the privileges of the natural Israel, and much more.