Daily Devotionals

December 12th, 2024

Love

Read: 1 John 4:8 

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Give yourself permission to accept that you are loved. Love is God himself. Love is the transforming factor giving you life. Deep inside you is your greatest treasure given by God. Love finds love and multiplies itself in the loved one. 

You learn about love by living for God. He wants you to know Him deeply, intimately, and personally. He wants you to think like Him. 

You learn about love by learning about God. Nothing should stop you because you already have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). Sometimes, it is through tragedy and sorrow that you discover how loved you truly are. God’s love breaks through pain to see beyond it. 

It is this life-transforming realization of God’s intense and personal love for you that keeps expanding in you. God himself has revealed the secrets of loving and being loved in Scripture. Only He and His love define love. 

The power of love is to know God. Knowing Him, we learn to see ourselves through the eyes of love. There are no other eyes with which to see the world as it truly is.

Adapted from the devotional He Calls Me His Child