UNFAILING LOVE
SCRIPTURE
Many are the woes of the wicked, but the Lord's unfailing love surrounds the one who trusts in him.
-Psalm 32:10
God is not a stranger to our mishaps in love. He sees every rejection, every betrayal, every argument, every separation. He longs for us to know that he is the God of unfailing love. It's not just one of his traits; it's the trait that binds everything we know about God together. He loves deeply, with empowerment and healing, and his love does not fail. Ever.
It's time to stop wishing God would give us what we want and let God give us what we need--his unfailing love. He wants his love to be our first love because no other love can give us what God can give so completely. Who would we be if we completely believed in God's unfailing love? What would happen if we fully accepted that we are worth loving for eternity? Who could we become if we accepted how God values and believes in us?
Wouldn't we live with more security and less fear? Wouldn't we reflect our original, God-given identity and stop chasing someone else's idea of who we should be?
Lent gives us space to review the loves in our lives that pull us down, frustrate us, or hurt us. Sometimes they are people; sometimes they are activities or habits. We can't always remove them, but we can, with God's love, reassign their priority in our lives. We can ask God to give us what we need to protect us from frustrating and self-destructive detours. We can receive unfailing love that empowers us to receive and give love from a healed place and not a wounded one.
Let God love you today. You--the needy, wanting-to-do-better you; the you who needs to know that when God loved the world, he directed that love personally and unfailingly to you. You are not just another prayer request. You are the apple of God's eye, God's treasure, God's reason for getting involved in the mess of this world.
Live knowing that the unfailing love of God is your armor, your home, and the lap of a doting father of a prized child. Live loved. Deeply loved.
BURNING QUESTIONS
1. Where do you feel the most unloved? Ask God to bring his unfailing love there.
2. Whom do you have trouble loving? Ask God to bring his unfailing love there.
AFFIRMATION
I am loved beyond my understanding, and I am also empowered to love others more with God's unfailing love.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Compassionate Father, sometimes I feel under-loved because I don't allow you to love me with your unfailing love. Show me your love today.
SCRIPTURE
Many are the woes of the wicked, but the Lord's unfailing love surrounds the one who trusts in him.
-Psalm 32:10
God is not a stranger to our mishaps in love. He sees every rejection, every betrayal, every argument, every separation. He longs for us to know that he is the God of unfailing love. It's not just one of his traits; it's the trait that binds everything we know about God together. He loves deeply, with empowerment and healing, and his love does not fail. Ever.
It's time to stop wishing God would give us what we want and let God give us what we need--his unfailing love. He wants his love to be our first love because no other love can give us what God can give so completely. Who would we be if we completely believed in God's unfailing love? What would happen if we fully accepted that we are worth loving for eternity? Who could we become if we accepted how God values and believes in us?
Wouldn't we live with more security and less fear? Wouldn't we reflect our original, God-given identity and stop chasing someone else's idea of who we should be?
Lent gives us space to review the loves in our lives that pull us down, frustrate us, or hurt us. Sometimes they are people; sometimes they are activities or habits. We can't always remove them, but we can, with God's love, reassign their priority in our lives. We can ask God to give us what we need to protect us from frustrating and self-destructive detours. We can receive unfailing love that empowers us to receive and give love from a healed place and not a wounded one.
Let God love you today. You--the needy, wanting-to-do-better you; the you who needs to know that when God loved the world, he directed that love personally and unfailingly to you. You are not just another prayer request. You are the apple of God's eye, God's treasure, God's reason for getting involved in the mess of this world.
Live knowing that the unfailing love of God is your armor, your home, and the lap of a doting father of a prized child. Live loved. Deeply loved.
BURNING QUESTIONS
1. Where do you feel the most unloved? Ask God to bring his unfailing love there.
2. Whom do you have trouble loving? Ask God to bring his unfailing love there.
AFFIRMATION
I am loved beyond my understanding, and I am also empowered to love others more with God's unfailing love.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Compassionate Father, sometimes I feel under-loved because I don't allow you to love me with your unfailing love. Show me your love today.
Posted in Lent