In the United Kingdom, the song was also issued as the B-side of "Faster", on a charity single benefiting the cancer research project set up by the late Formula 1 driver Gunnar Nilsson.

Harrison wrote the lyrics to "Your Love Is Forever" in February 1978 while holiday on the Hawaiian island of Maui with his girlfriend, Olivia Arias, as they prepared to become parents for the first time.

"[3] The album was Harrison's first since Thirty Three & ⅓ in 1976,[4] after which he and his girlfriend, Olivia Arias, had spent a year travelling and attending races in the 1977 Formula 1 world championship.

[16][nb 1] Author Ian Inglis says the melody has a radiant quality in the manner of the Beatles' "Because" and the song retains a mood that reflects its Hawaiian origins.

[40] In an interview to promote the album, Harrison likened "Your Love Is Forever" to "My Sweet Lord", saying that it conveyed the same spiritual message but more subtly, so as to avoid offending his audience, and because he had matured and was "a bit more laid back".

[48][49][nb 4] Mojo included Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou's recording of the song on Harrison Covered,[51] a tribute CD accompanying the November 2011 issue of the magazine.

Highlighting the opening lines, "Sublime is the summertime warm and lazy / These are perfect days like heaven's about here", she said it conveyed "Those times in your life when everything is just smooth and beautiful and you can really be your best self and who you want to be.

He said that the album succeeded on Harrison's "guileless romanticism" in tracks where "Crafty harmonies and skilfully-layered guitars recall the sun-soaked vistas of 'Because' and 'Sun King' on Abbey Road.

Thribb admired Harrison for bringing "both sunshine and moonshine into our lives"[57] and recognised "Your Love Is Forever" as a song with the artist's "[trademark] chiming guitar chords" and "ringing sincerity" in the vocals.

[60] Writing in The Rolling Stone Album Guide that same year, Mac Randall said that "mellowness overwhelms musicality" on George Harrison, although he made an exception of "Not Guilty" and the "understated gem" "Your Love Is Forever".

Lindsay admires the melody and lyrics, including the "beautifully pastoral imagery of the ebb and flow of seasonal changes", and the atmosphere created by the electric and slide guitars and supported by Newmark's understated drumming.

[33] Simon Leng recognises "Your Love Is Forever" and "Life Itself" as Harrison tracks that are "the closest to his musical 'soul'", whereby "his meticulous craftsmanship as a singer, guitar player, and arranger was used to create aural replicas of grace.

"[64] Deeming it "George Harrison's musical image of heaven", with a slide guitar solo that "reveals exquisite lyricism", Leng views the song as the clearest example of Harrison sharing the aesthetic forwarded by American composer Alan Hovhaness earlier in the twentieth century, when Hovhaness, similarly drawing inspiration from Eastern music and religion, bucked prevailing trends by steadfastly celebrating melody over atonality.

[65] Ian Inglis includes "Your Love Is Forever" among the Harrison songs that possess "great charm, energy, and beauty" yet may be little known compared with those from the artist's most critically acclaimed albums.

[66] Inglis calls it a "beautifully controlled track" and an example of how, similar to the surge in the Beatles' productivity during their 1968 visit to Rishikesh in India, Harrison's first Maui holiday released a "vein of sophisticated and delicate music that was previously hidden".