September 22, 2023 David Jeremiah Daily Devotional (Turning Point)

Today’s Topic: A Safe Harbor

Scripture: And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. – Romans 8:28

Recommended Reading: Romans 8:35-39

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

DAVID JEREMIAH’S TURNING POINT SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Everything we know about love stems from God. The apostle John wrote that “God is love” and that “we love [God] because He first loved us” (1 John 4:8, 16, 19). Our love for God, as well as our love for others, is a response to the God of love who first loved us. As we abide in God’s love, we respond by obeying His command to love others (John 15:10).

Psalm 91 is a testament to God’s loving protection for those who love Him: “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him” (verse 14). When we get to the New Testament, we find Paul writing that everything works for good for those who love God (Romans 8:28). And in the same chapter (a mirror of Psalm 91), Paul lists all the things in life that might separate us from God’s love and says none of them will (Romans 8:35-39)!

To be loved unconditionally—by God or by others—is a safe harbor. Dwell in God’s love today so you are equipped to love others.

We are called upon to reflect the love of God as much in trial as in tranquility.
John Blanchard

Read-Thru-the-Bible: Micah 1 – 4