November 1

Our God is passionate. His care for His creation is beyond the comprehension of our numbed senses. We think we care deeply about many things, but the level of our Lord’s care—of His investment of Himself into our lives, into our circumstances, into our problems, into our solutions—is beyond our ken.

Why does the One who inhabits eternity choose to involve Himself in the mundane things of human existence? How can it be that He who measured the heavens with a span and scattered the stars into the unfathomable depths of space elects to care about a student’s calculus test or a child’s earache?

Why has He promised that He’ll never let us down, that before we call to Him in prayer His answer is already being expedited into our situation? The answer to all those questions is one little word that caused Him to engrave our names on the palm of His hand (Isaiah 49:16). It’s because of His love for us. As He loves us, He desires that we love. He lives His love for us and He wants us to live His love.

His Word instructs that we are to, “…speak the truth in love that we may in all things grow into…Christ” (Ephesians 4:15). He knows that if our love matures, becomes unselfish rather than an expression of our selfhood, it will enable us to be His representatives among a world of people who are perishing for the lack of His love. He knows that as He spoke and worlds came into existence, so, too, as we speak His love, we, and those around us, shall become loving as He is.