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September 21 – Love endures all things

“Love…endures all things.” – 1 Corinthians 13:7 

Scripture reading: Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 13:7

Love endures through the good times and the bad times. Love doesn’t forsake people when life is hard and one’s energy is zapped. Love never tires of supporting the other person for their good. Love perseveres through hardship, pain, suffering and misfortune. Love doesn’t love only when it’s convenient. Love is inconvenienced for others. Love bears and endures all things.

How can we love like this? Well, again, with us it’s impossible. We cannot muster it up from within. We must look to Christ and pray that the Spirit would fill us with Christ-like enduring love. Jesus is the one who came to save us from all our sins. Jesus is the one who “bears all things…endures all things” in our salvation. He loved us to the very end and gave Himself for us on the cross (John 13:1; Galatians 2:20).

Even now He continues to endure with us and serve us in love as our Great High Priest at the Father’s right hand (Hebrews 7:25). “Therefore…let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:1-2). Let us look to Christ for the mercy and grace we need, not only for forgiveness, but also for the strength to endure with others in love.

Suggestions for prayer

Ask God for forgiveness for the times you’ve given up on loving others when life has become difficult, or they have become difficult. Rest in God’s love and forgiveness in Christ and pray for the Spirit to empower you with a Christ-like love that endures through the good times and the bad times.

Rev. Brian Cochran is ordained in the United Reformed Churches in North America and has served as the pastor of Redeemer Reformation Church in Regina, SK, for 14 years. This month he starts a new call to Grace URC in Torrance, CA. Get this devotional delivered directly to your phone each day via our RP App. This devotional is made available by the Nearer To God Devotional team, who also make available in print, for purchase, at NTGDevotional.com.

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