NOTES for Jer 31:3

The prophet speaks on behalf of the Israeli people, it is in particular to these people that God manifested Himself and opened His love and His favor to them. But, certainly, it is not only the description of the happened event, but also a prediction, that can and needs to be understood in the spiritual sense. In almost over five centuries after the prophet Jeremiah, God will manifest His love to all people in the fact that the Son of God will come into this world to bring the good will - salvation. Let’s notice that and in the case of people, and in the case of every individual, God's lovingkindness is not the corollary of some kind of righteousness, of some merits, but comes only from God's everlasting love. It is still important to see that the lovingkindness "extends" to us, and is not imposed, and in order that it becomes for us reality, it is necessary to accept it.