Monday: God’s Love
The Gospel for Every Day
Each day, we slow down to align our hearts with God’s Rhythms of Grace.
This series, we examine the portrait of the Extraordinarily Ordinary Christian Life.
This week, we meditate on the theme of God’s Love throughout Scripture.
Today’s Scripture
In this passage, God’s chosen people are reminded that they were not chosen for what they bring to the table, but because of God’s love. It is truly this first-moving love of God that transforms us into people who obey his words and reflect his love.
Reading slowly, let God convict you by his truth and overwhelm you by his grace in Christ.
Deuteronomy 7:6-12
6 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 10 and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. 11 You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
12 “And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
Gospel Meditation
Prayerfully meditate on the Scripture you just read using the rhythm Look Up, Look In, Look Out:
Look Up: What does this reveal about God?
Look In: What does this reveal about me?
Look Out: Where is Christ leading me today?
Closing Prayer
From John 15:9-13
Father,
Thank you for your love. By your Spirit, teach me to abide in your love and keep your commands, that your joy may be in me, and that my joy may be full.
In the name of Jesus, who, in the greatest love, laid down his life for his friends,
Amen.
