resilience | lent devotions

“I have loved you with a love that lasts forever. And so with unfailing love, I have drawn you to myself.” Jeremiah 31:3, CEB

The Father did not create you because he needed you. He chose to create you first for his glory, but also because he is love. He wanted to lavish his love on you. And he didn’t start loving you when you were born, nor even when you were conceived. He loved you before the dawn of creation.

Love is the most important thing God has to offer you and he gives it freely and abundantly. The evidence of that is the cross. Jesus accepts the agony of the cross knowing he will alter the destiny of millions of God's children. It is all done out of his great love for us.

We need to elevate the importance of love in our lives. Jesus made it his priority and so should we. Developing Kingdom resilience involves accepting our responsibility for the death or Christ but also knowing we can revel in the love the Father has lavished on us and then offer that love to the rest of the world.

Let’s pray
We’re going to use the lyrics of a beautiful Easter hymn Samuel Crossman as our prayer today.

“My song is love unknown, my Saviour's love for me; love to the loveless shown that they might lovely be: but who am I, that for my sake my Lord should take frail flesh and die? Here might I stay and sing, no story so divine; never was love, dear King! Never was grief like Thine. This is my friend, in whose sweet praise I all my days could gladly spend.”

Thank you Father for your everlasting love. Thank you Jesus for embodying that love on the cross. I am so grateful. Help me to love as you love. In Jesus' name. Amen.

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