“Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.” Eph. 6:24
Lord Jesus, if the question is, “What’s the bottom-line, “whole enchilada,” main thing we’re to focus on till heaven?”… the final verse in Ephesians perfectly sums it up. We are to love you with an “undying love.”
Loving you with everything we have and are… what a glorious calling, heart-consuming vocation, and life-shaping honor. It’s the only worthy response to who you are, Jesus, and the way you love us in the Gospel. You love us with a measureless, incomparable, inexhaustible love (Eph.3:18-19). As our Savior, you love us with a perfect and complete salvation, all the way Home.
As our Bridegroom, you love us with a passion and delight beyond our imagining. As our Lord you love us with uncontested sovereignty, working in all things for our good. As our Good Shepherd, you love us with providential care and kindness—even in the valley of death’s shadow.
As our Friend, you love us in our brokenness, sin, and weakness as no one else can or would. It’s why we sing these words loudly and joyfully, “Jesus! What a friend for sinners! Jesus! Lover of my soul; Friends may fail me, foes assail me, He, my Savior, makes me whole.” Hallelujah, and thank you Jesus.
Your love for us is the main constant in our lives, only equaled by our constant need for it. Jesus, re-stoke the fires of our love for you. Restore the love we first had for you. Then super-size it, intensify it, and channel it for your glory and redeeming purposes in our world. So Very Amen.