Monument to Eternal Love

The Taj Mahal sits like a jewel on the plains of Agra in Northern India. Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal, was a Mogul Ruler who reigned in the seventeenth century. He spared no expense in the lavish construction of the famous building. Twenty thousand workers labored for over twenty years on what would be one of worlds most beautiful buildings.

Although Taj Mahal means Crowned Palace, it is, in fact, a mausoleum. Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal as a tribute to his wife whom he loved dearly.

Because of buildings beauty and Shah Jahans heartfelt affection for his wife, a poet described the Taj Mahal as a Monument to Eternal Love.

Eternal love, what a phrase! With poetic license men may use the phrase to describe the bond between husband and wife. Yet, in a stricter sense, the phrase eternal love can only rightly describe the love in Gods heart since He alone inhabits eternity. For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place (Isaiah 57:15). Before the universe was created He inhabited eternity. He inhabits eternity now, and He will inhabit eternity when time and this world are no more. He is the Uncaused Cause, the great I am, the Architect of the universe who spoke a word and the world leapt into existence.

Does He love the people He created? Jeremiah the prophet wrote, The LORD of old hath appeared to me saying, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee (Jeremiah 31:3). The answer to the question, Does God love?, is a resounding yes! And oh how He loves! Sometimes the smallest words have deep meaning and this is the case with the little word so in the Bible verse John 3-16.

God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.