Love

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love,…” 2 Peter 1v5-7 (MSG)

We see the story of Ruth and Boaz, how when Boaz saw Ruth he took knowledge of her, ensured she was provided for, protected, prayed for her, spoke friendly to her and was a source of comfort for her (see Ruth 2). We have a love that even surpasses this and any love story you could ever imagine. A love so great that it would die for us, and it wasn’t because we were good at the time, for Romans 5v6-8 (NIV) says “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Hallelujah. Beloved, God loves you. Ephesians 3v17-19 (AMP) says “May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]; [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!” Beloved “See how very much our Father loves, us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we are!...” (1 John 3v1, NLT). If there is one thing that should resound with you today, is that God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit love you very much. If you are a believer – remain secure in this love. If you knew the Lord but went away, come back to His love, and if you have never had a relationship with the Lord, no need to waste one more moment – He loves you and is calling you to Himself.

Prayer

Father, I thank You for Your Word. Father, we pray that from Your glorious, unlimited resources, You will empower us with inner strength through Your Spirit. Help us to trust in Christ, that He may make His home in our hearts, and may our roots grow down into God’s love and keep us strong. And may we have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is. May we experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then we will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to Him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever, in Jesus name, we pray, believing and with thanksgiving, amen.