THE UPPER ROOM DEVOTIONAL 21ST OCTOBER 2024, MESSAGE
Read The Upper Room Devotional 21st October 2024 written by Steven Moore McNeal (North Carolina, USA)
TOPIC: All-Embracing Love
Today’s Reading
Romans 8:35-39
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? – Romans 8:35 (NRSVUE)
Today’s Message
One day in the grocery store parking lot I heard a young woman singing a song about God. As I listened to her singing, I became fascinated with her voice and how much love she put into each note of the song. When she finished, I walked over to her and asked her why she was singing that particular song. She smiled and said, “God loves everyone. You won’t see one person out here that God doesn’t love.
That’s why I am singing.” Her answer surprised me; yet her words were true. When I left, I looked around at the people in the parking lot and thought of how God loves each one of them.
With so many painful events taking place in the world that divide and dehumanize, it is good for us to take a minute to realize that God loves each person no matter what they may be going through at any given moment.
Today’s Prayer
O God, teach us to love as you do so that we can show love to all people. Amen.
Thought for the Day
Opportunities to show God’s love are all around me.
Prayer Focus
Those who feel unloved by God
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