A Love Like That

We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28

Life will eventually turn every person upside down and inside out. When, not if, your world is turned upside down, know that you will be sustained. No disaster is too devastating for God to reach out with His loving hand and comfort you—and, unimaginably, make it work for His purposes.

A grown child loses her way, a marriage crumbles, sickness ravages, financial disaster leaves you with nothing—these things are common to humankind. But God’s love can bring us through any emotional earthquake like these and through any shakings that we experience. Jesus’ sacrificial, saving, supernatural love can lift us out of betrayal and hurt. It can deliver us from any mess. Love like that can release us from every prison of fear and confusion. And love like God’s can fill us up until it spills out of us, and we can’t help but speak about it and share it.

Jesus promised, “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). Whatever you experience in life, cry out to Jesus and ask for His love. It will sustain you, strengthen you, and carry you. When all else is shaken and fails, His love doesn’t. And it never will.

Your love truly is indescribable, Lord Jesus. Show me how to rest in it, even when my world turns upside down.