November 6
Ezekiel 14:12-16:41; Hebrews 7:18-28; Psalm 106:1-12; Proverbs 27:4-6
We are more loved than we can fathom. So much of the world’s love must be earned and maintained, while God’s love is unconditional. This amazing love needs to be understood and believed.
God describes his love for his people in Ezekiel 16 using the image of an adoptive parent. He took Israel in like an abandoned child and raised her up. He loved her when she was “kicking in [her] blood” and unable to do anything. This same depth of love is what God feels for all people. God provides love and life and, in his common grace, provides good things to all people. Despite God's compassionate love we far too often neglect him by trusting in ourselves (v.15). We think that all that we have is due to our own abilities and thus we deserve the credit, rather than God. If we do this then we will inevitably drift from God. For Israel, this manifested itself in a failure to worship and a failure to live morally and corporately it led to judgment.
David in Psalm 106 provides great practices to help us remember God’s love. He tells us to: 1) praise God and 2) remember what he has done. If we are praising God, then we are recognizing that he is the source of all good things. As we praise him, we should further remember that “his love endures forever” and that Christ is the sacrifice for our sins “once for all when he offered himself.” Second, when we remember all that God has done for us as modeled in Hebrews 7 and Psalm 106, it sends us back to praise and thus back to God. Let us make our lives about praising and remembering God’s radical love so that we can live in right response to him.
Father God, you are worthy of praise and I thank you that your love endures forever. Help me to love you and others in a way that is a right response to your love for me. Amen.
Question: How are you doing at believing and responding rightly to God’s love?
We are more loved than we can fathom. So much of the world’s love must be earned and maintained, while God’s love is unconditional. This amazing love needs to be understood and believed.
God describes his love for his people in Ezekiel 16 using the image of an adoptive parent. He took Israel in like an abandoned child and raised her up. He loved her when she was “kicking in [her] blood” and unable to do anything. This same depth of love is what God feels for all people. God provides love and life and, in his common grace, provides good things to all people. Despite God's compassionate love we far too often neglect him by trusting in ourselves (v.15). We think that all that we have is due to our own abilities and thus we deserve the credit, rather than God. If we do this then we will inevitably drift from God. For Israel, this manifested itself in a failure to worship and a failure to live morally and corporately it led to judgment.
David in Psalm 106 provides great practices to help us remember God’s love. He tells us to: 1) praise God and 2) remember what he has done. If we are praising God, then we are recognizing that he is the source of all good things. As we praise him, we should further remember that “his love endures forever” and that Christ is the sacrifice for our sins “once for all when he offered himself.” Second, when we remember all that God has done for us as modeled in Hebrews 7 and Psalm 106, it sends us back to praise and thus back to God. Let us make our lives about praising and remembering God’s radical love so that we can live in right response to him.
Father God, you are worthy of praise and I thank you that your love endures forever. Help me to love you and others in a way that is a right response to your love for me. Amen.
Question: How are you doing at believing and responding rightly to God’s love?
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