My Vision of Your Unconditional Love- Lent 32, 2020

Prayer Focus: Unconditional and Absolutes are two sides of the same attribute

Thank You, Father, that in Your eyes with Your 2020 vision, love is unconditional. It is absolute. It is firmly grounded in Your Image and displayed as perfect and holy in Your Son Jesus. During the stresses of our days as we are isolated and feel so alone, we ask as did Paul, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” Praise the Father that it won’t be trouble like this virus. It won’t be hardship like many families are experiencing with loss of jobs and livelihoods. It won’t be persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword. Nothing can separate us because Your love is absolute! Therefore, even though the news has reports of death all day long; remind us of life ETERNAL made possible by the supreme sacrifice of Christ who loves us. Remind us that we will always be more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Our trials may be many. We may feel alone and nearing despair, but in You, we are convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord! How we praise You, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It’s in Your power I pray for everyone–worldwide–in these dark days as Your light dawns upon the entire globe. Turn everyone’s eyes to You and may they–from the least to the greatest–know You love them unconditionally and may they be prepared to find Your mercy and forgiveness in their repentance. May they know Your unconditional love! Amen! (Adapted from Romans 8:35-39)

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Lent 2013 looked at The Letter to the Romans: Paul’s Masterpiece to reclaim foundations of our Christian heritage and began February 13, 2013.
A very special and ever popular offering was Lent 2014’s Be Still and Know that I AM God which can be obtained through the archives beginning in March 2014.
Lent 2015 began on February 18, 2015 with a series entitled With Christ in the Upper Room: Final Preparations. We explored what is often called “The Upper Room Discourse” found in John chapters 13-17.
ReKindle, the Lent 2016 series, began on February 10, 2016 and encouraged us to rekindle our spiritual lives.
Light: There’s Nothing Like It was the 2017 Lent series and explored this metaphor often used to portray Christ. It is archived beginning March 1, 2017.
Lent 2018, we explored the questions of Pi and Chi (the Greek letter beginning the word Christos, which means Christ, Messiah, the Anointed One). We asked and answered the questions “Why?” from the movie Life of Pi as we discovered the uniqueness of Jesus Christ in a world of many faiths.
Lent 2019 gave us a deeper window into Easter “More to the Easter Story” since we miss so much when we rely only on a superficial understanding of the work of Christ. These devotionals are archived beginning March 6, 2019.