Day 11 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? (Romans 2:4) “The goodness of God leads you to repentance.” Another translation reads: “God’s kindness leads you toward repentance” (NIV). God’s nature of lovingkindness makes a way for repentance. But …
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62001.012 The Father’s Embrace
Day 12 But when he [the prodigal son] was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called …
62001.013 God Loves Us as Sinners
Day 13 God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8) In this verse, we see the essence of God’s heart toward us. He is not filled with wrath and anger. His thoughts toward us are not about judgment or punishment. His heart is, …
62001.014 Eternal Life in Eternal Love
Day 14 This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. (John 17:3) Eternal life is not just going to heaven when you die. It is not a one-time gift God gives to you and then He walks away. Eternal life is not a …
62001.015 Commanded to Love … But How?
Day 15 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him and saying, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. …
62001.016 Nothing Without Love
Day 16 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but …
62001.017 Jesus’ New Command
Day 17 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. (John 13:34) Two years had passed since I’d prayed on my friend’s living room carpet: “God, fix what is wrong with me. I want to love. Whatever it takes.” In …
62001.018 Born to Be Loved
Day 18 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us. (1 John 4:10) We love Him because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19) We are born to be loved. The soul of each and every one of us carries this foundational need. If we dig down deep enough …
62001.019 God, Know My Heart
Day 19 Search me, O God and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 139:23–24) “Search me.” “Know my heart.” “Try me.” “Lead me.” This is David’s cry. He is asking for God to shine …
62001.020 Your Spirit, Soul, and Body
Day 20 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it. (1 Thessalonians 5:23–24) God designed us in His image. He wants us to …