The Good News In 10 DaysSample

Day 2

One-Minute Devotion

One Thought, One Prayer, One Scripture

The good news is God loves us unconditionally. We are the objects of His love but we are not the cause of it. Before we could earn His love, before we deserved it, God demonstrated His love for us. Romans 5:8 says, “…God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him” (MSG). 

God does not love us because we are so loveable, for if the truth be told we are not all that loveable. In fact, the Apostle Paul indicts every last one of us when he writes: “There’ s nobody living right, not even one, nobody who knows the score, nobody alert for God. They’ve all taken the wrong turn; they’ve all wandered down blind alleys. No one’s living right; I can’t find a single one” (Romans 3:11-12 MSG). Think about it. There’s none of us deserving of God’s love. Not one. Still, God loves us!

Sometimes I’m tempted to think God loves me because I so desperately need to be loved, but that’s not the case either. God’s love is not based on what we do, either good or bad; or what we need. It is not about us; it’s about Him. He loves us because of who He is, because that is the kind of God He is!

Lord Jesus, thank You for loving me just the way I am warts and all. And thank You for loving me too much to leave me this way. In Your holy name I pray. Amen.