God Showed His Love
Your Nightly Prayer for Apr. 4, 2025
by Britt Mooney
TONIGHT’S SCRIPTURE
"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." - Romans 5:8
SOMETHING TO PONDER
A popular book once detailed how each of us has our “love languages.” He listed five, and marriage counselors referred to it or suggested it for years. The idea was simple—each of us shows or interprets love in specific ways like acts of service or words of encouragement. These five ways overlapped enough with the Bible that churches and pastors used it in various ways, as well.
The Bible clearly expresses how love isn’t a passionate emotion alone. This makes sense to us. We want people to not only say they love us, which is important, but to show us somehow. Love not only wants and expresses the best for others but acts self-sacrificially for their eternal good. The apostle Paul lists the ways we participate in God’s love—patient, kind, doesn’t rejoice in iniquity but the truth, etc. (1 Corinthians 13)
In another letter, Paul makes a powerful statement. God has love for us, and he demonstrated it in the clearest way possible. While we continued to sin, rejected God, rebelled against his love, he showed us his love through giving his Son. Even though we would have denied we needed it, and many still do, he chose to reveal his love by dying on our behalf so we could choose to live. Within Christ’s death, the finished work of love is available: forgiveness, redemption, being born again through the Holy Spirit, and living forever in the Kingdom of God.
We go through hard times, and we often question God’s love for us. We sing about it, hear about it, but it seems far away when we feel discouraged. In those moments, we can remember God has shown us his love through Christ’s death, and from that truth, we trust his love will give us all we need today and in the future.
YOUR NIGHTLY PRAYER
Heavenly Father,
Thank you for showing your perfect love to us through Christ’s sacrifice. You didn’t wait for us to be worthy or deserving but loved us while we yet rebelled against you in sin. Strengthen us to trust your love when we feel discouraged and defeated. We pray our actions reveal your love through serving others in joy and truth. Fill us with your Spirit so we can love like Jesus does.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
THREE THINGS TO MEDITATE UPON
1. How do you feel loved? What do people do that makes you feel loved?
2. How does God giving us his Son for our redemption and freedom connect with your love language?
3. When you feel discouraged and defeated, how does meditating upon God’s great love to us through Christ help and comfort you?
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