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Your love because it is based on the sure foundation of Your unchanging Word. Because You love me, You went to the cross for me. Because You love me, You are with me and for me today, supplying all that I need. Thank You, Jesus! Amen.

Who You Are in God’s Eyes

    Today’s Scripture
    We love Him because He first loved us.
    1 J OHN 4:19
    D o you believe that God loves you with an unchanging love today? Even if you’ve just failed or made a mistake? This, my friend, is where the rubber meets the road in our Christian walk every day.
    I’m here to tell you beyond the shadow of a doubt that God loves you with an everlasting love. His love for you is unconditional (see Titus 3:3–5 NASB ). It is a love that is so pure, pristine, and marvelous. It has nothing to do with your performance, but everything to do with who you are in His eyes—His beloved. The emphasis of the old covenant of the law was all about your love for God, whereas the emphasis of the new covenant of grace is all about God’s love for you. The sum total of the law under the old covenant is, “You shall love the L ORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength” (Deut. 6:5, see also Matt. 22:37, 40).
    Let’s be honest here. Have you ever met anyone who can love God this way? Of course not. It’s a human impossibility. The law was designed to show us that we are incapable of loving God perfectly.
    Knowing that man wouldn’t be able to fulfill His commandment to love Him with all his heart, all his soul, all his mind, and all his strength, do you know what God did? He demonstrated how only
He
could love us with all His heart, all His soul, all His mind, and all His strength when He sent His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to redeem us from all our sins with His own blood. That is why the new covenant is all about God’s love for you and not your love for Him! Under grace, God doesn’t want you to focus your thoughts on, “Do I really love God?” That’s not the focus of the new covenant. Under grace, God wants you to focus on
His
love for you. Therefore, the questions you should be asking yourself are:
    “Do I know how much God loves me today?”
    “Do I really believe that God loves me right now?”
    Choose to believe right about how God loves you today. It makes all the difference in the world to how quickly you are able to get back on your feet, and go from faith to faith and strength to strength in your walk with Him.

Today’s Thought
    Under the new covenant of grace, God wants me to focus on His love for me.

Today’s Prayer
    Father, thank You that Your new covenant of grace is all about how much You love me unconditionally and not how able I am to love and please You. I praise You that You see me as Your beloved child and that You surround Me with Your unmerited favor. I believe that I am the apple of Your eye and the delight of Your heart. I rejoice that I am highly favored, greatly blessed, and deeply loved by You! Amen.

Nothing Means Nothing!

    Today’s Scripture
    For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
    R OMANS 8:38–39
    I often hear people say, “God’s love is unconditional!” But the moment they fail, all of a sudden, the love they once said was unconditional becomes contingent upon their behavior. Many believe that God loves them when they do right, but stops loving them the moment they do something wrong. Well, I’m going to shatter that wrong belief into smithereens with the truth of God’s Word!
    While our love for God can fluctuate, His love for us always remains constant. His love for us is based on who He is and not based on what we do. I love just how confident and emphatic the apostle Paul is when he says, “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels