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- Herausgeber: Crossway
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Serie: 40 Days Devotionals
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
A 40 Day Devotional on Love from Paul David Tripp This series of short devotionals from popular author and speaker Paul David Tripp encourages Christians to experience the life-giving message of the gospel every day. Each book contains 40 daily readings curated from the best-selling devotional New Morning Mercies and focused on a particular theme essential to the Christian life. Short enough to read in 5 minutes or less, each meditation will encourage readers to treasure the life-changing truths of God's word more fully. Only God's love can satisfy the longing of our hearts. Through 40 daily meditations from his best-selling devotional New Morning Mercies, popular author and speaker Paul David Tripp explores the glorious beauty of God's love. Tripp encourages us not to put our hope in the imperfect love that the world offers, but rather to cling to the faithful and enduring love of God—the only love that will never disappoint.
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40
Days
of
Love
Books by Paul David Tripp
40 Days of Faith
40 Days of Grace
40 Days of Hope
40 Days of Love
A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger Than You
Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide for Parenting Teens (Resources for Changing Lives)
Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do
Broken-Down House: Living Productively in a World Gone Bad
Come, Let Us Adore Him: A Daily Advent Devotional
Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
Forever: Why You Can’t Live without It
Grief: Finding Hope Again
How People Change (with Timothy S. Lane)
Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change (Resources for Changing Lives)
Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional
Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church
Lost in the Middle: Midlife and the Grace of God
My Heart Cries Out: Gospel Meditations for Everyday Life
New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional
Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family
Redeeming Money: How God Reveals and Reorients Our Hearts
Sex in a Broken World: How Christ Redeems What Sin Distorts
Shelter in the Time of Storm: Meditations on God and Trouble
Suffering: Eternity Makes a Difference (Resources for Changing Lives)
Suffering: Gospel Hope When Life Doesn’t Make Sense
Teens and Sex: How Should We Teach Them? (Resources for Changing Lives)
War of Words: Getting to the Heart of Your Communication Struggles (Resources for Changing Lives)
What Did You Expect?: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage
Whiter Than Snow: Meditations on Sin and Mercy
40
Days
of
Love
Paul David Tripp
40 Days of Love
Copyright © 2021 by Paul David Tripp
Published by Crossway 1300 Crescent Street Wheaton, Illinois 60187
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The devotions in this book appeared previously in Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014).
Cover design: Josh Dennis
First printing, 2021
Printed in the United States of America
All Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
All emphases in Scripture quotations have been added by the author.
Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-7437-5 ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-7440-5 PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-7438-2 Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-7439-9
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Tripp, Paul David, 1950- author.
Title: 40 days of love / Paul David Tripp.
Other titles: Forty days of love
Description: Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2021. | “The devotions in this book appeared previously in Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies : A Daily Gospel Devotional (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014).”
Identifiers: LCCN 2020038499 (print) | LCCN 2020038500 (ebook) | ISBN 9781433574375 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781433574382 (pdf) | ISBN 9781433574399 (mobi) | ISBN 9781433574405 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Love—Religious aspects—Christianity—Meditations.
Classification: LCC BV4639 .T76 2021 (print) | LCC BV4639 (ebook) | DDC 242/.2—dc23
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Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
2021-03-04 03:52:04 PM
Introduction
It is one of the most wonderful, encouraging, comforting, and motivating passages about God’s grace for us while we live in this groaning world and wait for redemption. It builds to this glorious crescendo:
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 8:31–39)
Why is love the crescendo of this remarkable Romans 8 passage? Why is the zenith of all Paul wants us to know about God’s grace a promise of the love of God? Paul understands something very fundamental that reaches to the height and depth of the life of every human being. The highest human joys are connected to love. The greatest human fears are about love. The most painful of human moments have to do with love. The unceasing longing of every human being has to do with love. Everyone cares about love. Everyone thinks about love. Everyone talks about love. Everyone worries about the vulnerability of love. No one has ever had to teach a child to want to be loved or cry when he or she feels unloved. There is no emotion, no experience, and no quest more authentically human than love.
There are two questions that every human being everywhere has asked, regardless of race, ethnicity, geography, history, age, or economic or social status:
Will someone love me?
Once they get to know me, will they still love me?
In this fallen world, the topography of love is rough and rocky. None of us walk a smooth, straight, and sunny pathway of love. Familial love fails all of us in some way. Marital love, with all of its romantic hopes and dreams, never quite fulfills our expectations. Friendship love never fully delivers what we wish. Online media love is a digital fabrication. When it comes to love, we spend much of our lives disappointed. Again and again, we are disappointed with love, and we repeatedly disappoint people who look to us for love. The point is that, in this fallen world, the kind of love that we long for is fleeting, elusive, and often disappointing.
This is what is so powerfully glorious about what Paul writes at the end of Romans 8. It speaks to the deepest hunger in the heart of every human being with a promise so amazing that it seems almost too good to be true—there is a love that will never forsake us. There is a love that will never fail in any of its commitments to us. There is a love that is sacrificial and generous all the time. There is a love that is so strong that nothing in all of creation can break it. There is a love that is faithful and true, no matter what. There is a love that is unbreakable, even when we are unloving and undeserving. There is a place where you can find an absolutely unbreakable bond of love, the kind of love you have dreamed of, and that your broken heart has cried out for.
You will never find this love in your spouse, children, parents, friends, or neighbors. There is only one place to find this peace-producing, joy-fulfilling, and heart-resting love—God. What every human heart longs for is the love of God. Only his sacrificial, forgiving, accepting, patient, kind, merciful, wise, and faithful love will ever satisfy the longing of our hearts. Only his love produces the rest, hope, and courage in us that then ignites our desire and ability to love others. When we bask in his love, we want to be visible representatives of his love in the lives of others. In his love, we find our identity. His love gives us new meaning and new potential. His love frees us from our bondage to chasing after love where it will never be found. The experience of his true love protects us from being deceived by counterfeit forms of love. Only his love can rescue us, restore us, and rebuild us. In reconciling us to him, his love has the power to reconcile us to one another.
There simply is nothing like the love of God. It is the most powerful force in the universe. Love is what we need—God’s love, that is. You and I could never earn it, deserve it, or achieve it. It reaches into the sinful muck of humanity, cleans us up, draws us close, and launches us to brand-new living while staying faithful to the end, even if we are not. In loving us, God gives us the greatest gift ever given—the gift of himself.
It is good to stop once in a while and spend time meditating on the glorious beauty of God’s love. This devotional is designed to help you do just that. May it be used to make your heart glad, fill you with courage and hope, and ignite in you a desire to be an ambassador of God’s gorgeous love.
Day 1
Unlike human love, which is often fickle and temporary, God’s love never fails, no matter what.
I love Psalm 136. I love all of the psalms, but Psalm 136 blows me away every time I read it. I love the repetition that makes this psalm stand out from all the others. I love the fact that Psalm 136 is a history psalm that, because of its refrain, gets turned into a love poem. I love that it affirms again and again what we desperately need to hear again and again—not once or twice, but twenty-six times! Now, I think that whenever God speaks, you and I should humbly shut up and listen, but I also think that we should pay careful attention to those places where God chooses to repeat himself, and even more so when he repeats himself so many times!
Why does God repeat, over and over through the pen of the psalmist, “for his steadfast love endures forever”? There are two answers to this question.
First, there is no reality more radical and foundational to a biblical worldview and a personal sense of identity than this. What is the biblical story? It’s the story of a God of love invading the world in the person of his Son of love to establish his kingdom of love by a radical sacrifice of love, to forgive us in love and draw us into his family of love, and to send us out as ambassadors of the very same love. The entire hope of fallen humanity rests on this one thing—that there is a Savior who is eternally steadfast in redeeming, forgiving, reconciling, transforming, and delivering love. Without this, the Bible is a book of interesting stories and helpful principles, but it is devoid of any power to fix what sin has broken.
The second reason God repeats this refrain is that we have no experience in our lives of this kind of love. You always begin to understand anything that is new to you from the vantage point of your own experience. All the human love we’ve experienced has been flawed in some way. But not God’s; his love is perfect and perfectly steadfast forever. It is the single most stunning reality in the life of a believer. God has placed his love on us and he will never again remove it. There’s a reason to continue, no matter how hard life seems and how weak you feel.
For further study and encouragement
Psalm 118
Day 2
You have one place of hope, security, and rest. It is found in these words: “God is love.”
It is something every human
