Day 29: God’s Love Never Fails
WEEK 5
Psalm 36:7
My family and I live in a very interesting place—in just two-square kilometers, about 80 nationalities of immigrants from different parts of the world coexist. Every day I see how they have to fight against the injustice, poverty, uncertainty, and the challenges they face because they are living in a different culture than their own.
In Psalm 36:7, David shows us the great love that God has with each of us and how, as a good Father, He wants to take care of us in our pilgrimage through life. Life drives us to move faster and be more independent by supporting our daily decisions in our own capacities, not finding moments during the day to stop and ask God what is best for our lives or what we should do each day.
There is an invitation that David makes to us to stop the daily agendas about to explode, the media bombardment of social networks, and the excess of information we are exposed to every day. We need to recover those times alone with our Creator.
Reflection Prayer
Father, help me to see Your love that reminds me of Your greatness and Your care for me. Help me to stay in You and do Your will in my life every day. Amen.
Week 5: The Love of God
The Beatles famously said, “All you need is love.” The reality is that this statement is truer than most realize, but our understanding of love is limited—it is often dependent and conditional. That is not the love that people need; instead, we need true love.
God’s love displayed in Scripture and experienced in our lives goes beyond the love we know and experience on a daily basis. 1 John 4:16 says, “God is love.” Love is who He is; it is His character. He came to this earth to display this perfect love, to show Himself, and to provide an opportunity for all of us to experience what we long for—love.
Consider Romans 5:8: “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
“All we need is love,” and the good news is that love is given to us in Jesus Christ.
— Jim Sappia