Whose Love Is Perfect? - Joseph Prince Daily Devotional (December-04-2023)

Joseph Prince (December-04-2023) Daily Devotional: Whose Love Is Perfect?

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

When I was the president of my youth ministry, I used to preach hard and strong messages, telling my youths, “You’ve got to love God! You’ve got to love the Lord with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul!” All that time, when I was preaching this to the young people, I was wondering to myself, “How in the world do I do that?”

I would look at myself and check my heart, mind, and soul—did I really love the Lord that perfectly? How could I expect my youths to love the Lord that way when I knew that I myself had failed?

At that time, I was not established in the new covenant of grace yet. I did not know that by preaching that way, I was actually placing all my youths under the law because the sum total of the law is to love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength (Matt. 22:37–40, Mark 12:29–30).

Let me ask you this: Has anybody ever been able to love the Lord with all his heart, mind, and soul? No one. Not a single person has been able to do that. God knew all the while that under the law, no one could love Him that perfectly. So do you know what He did? The Bible says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son . . .” I love that little word “so.” It speaks of the intensity with which God loves us.

When God sent Jesus, He was effectively saying this to us: “I know that you can’t love Me perfectly, so watch Me now. I will love you with all My heart, all My soul, all My mind, and all My strength.” And He stretched His arms wide and died for us. This is what the Bible says about what Jesus did on the cross: “For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him” (Rom. 5:7–9).

My friend, the cross is not a demonstration of our perfect love and devotion to God. The cross is God’s demonstration of His perfect love and His perfect grace (unmerited favor) toward us, for it was while we were still sinners that Jesus died for us. He did not die for you and me because of our perfect love for God. He died for you and me because of HIS perfect love for us!

Let me give you the Bible's definition of love to make this even clearer for you: “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10). Beloved, that's the emphasis of the new covenant of grace (unmerited favor)—HIS love for us, not our love for Him!

As we raise up a new generation of believers, let us raise up a generation that is impacted by God’s unmerited favor and that boasts in His love for us. When we receive His love for us and start believing that we are His beloved, look at the result that 1 John 4:11 spells out: “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” Notice that the love for one another comes after our experience of His love for us! It stems from an overflow.

You cannot love others when you have not first been filled by His love. And when you are overflowing with His love, you will fulfill the law effortlessly without even trying because God’s Word tells us, “Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law” (Rom. 13:10).

Step into that river today. Change the quality of your relationships by believing and being conscious of the fact that you are His beloved!

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Whose Love Is Perfect? - Joseph Prince Daily Devotional (December-04-2023)
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  • Comment Link Marie B Monday, 04 December 2023 19:13 posted by Marie B

    Pastor Prince,
    Thank you so much for your wonderful and freeing teachings on Grace.
    They have helped me so much in the last decade.
    I lived in constant fear and apprehension for many years.
    Every time altar call came at my church and sinners were asked to come I was afraid that I wasn’t really saved even though I know that Jesus paid the full price for my sins .
    When certain sins were mentioned or they would say things like “”some of you know you are not as close to God as you once were” etc I would always feel guilty and question myself.
    I am mostly free from it now but, had the same scary feeling a couple of weeks ago and was very apprehensive at our last communion because of being told to examine ourselves before we partake.
    I rarely partook of communion for years because I have a very troubled marriage.
    My husband has mental illness , bipolar depression and personality disorders and refuses to get help so, I have felt that maybe I should not be taking communion because of that.
    I tried to remember what you have taught us to do it in remembrance of Jesus.
    Do you have any resources that could help me to be more confident and peaceful about this?
    Thank you so much for all you have taught me about Grace and how much Our Lord Jesus loves us.
    I truly believe it has saved my life because I was so stressed every time I even thought I had a failure and I was so terrified of God that I couldn’t enjoy a relationship with Him.
    May God bless you as you continue to teach His wonderful Grace.

  • Comment Link Marie B Monday, 04 December 2023 18:29 posted by Marie B

    Pastor Prince,
    Thank you so much for your wonderful and freeing teachings on Grace.
    They have helped me so much in the last decade.
    I lived in constant fear and apprehension for many years.
    Every time altar call came at my church be sinners were asked to come I was afraid that I wasn’t really saved even though I know that Jesus paid the full price for my sins .
    When certain sins were mentioned or they would say things like “”some of you know you are not as close to God as you once were” etc I would always feel guilty and question myself.
    I am mostly free from it now but, had the same scary feeling a couple of weeks ago and was very apprehensive at our last communion because of being told to examine ourselves before we partake.
    I rarely partook of communion for years because I have a very troubled marriage.
    My husband has mental illness be personality disorders and refuses to get help so, I have felt that maybe I should not be taking communion because of that.
    I tried to remember what you have taught us to do it in remembrance of Jesus.
    Do you have any resources that could help me to be more confident and peaceful about this?
    Thank you so much for all you have taught me about grace nd how much Our Lord Jesus loves us.
    I truly believe it has saved my life because I was so stressed every time I had a failure and I was so terrified of Hod that I couldn’t enjoy a relationship with Him.
    May God bless you as you continue to teach His wonderful Grace.

  • Comment Link Maureen swanepoel Saturday, 03 December 2022 13:32 posted by Maureen swanepoel

    Good evening pastor prince thank you for this message and teaching hallelujah amen i just read this chapter before I listening to your messages clory to our mighty living lord Jesus christ name amen and amen 🙏🙏

  • Comment Link Maureen swanepoel Saturday, 03 December 2022 13:32 posted by Maureen swanepoel

    Good evening pastor prince thank you for this message and teaching hallelujah amen i just read this chapter before I listening to your messages clory to our mighty living lord Jesus christ name amen and amen 🙏🙏

  • Comment Link Maureen swanepoel Friday, 03 December 2021 11:07 posted by Maureen swanepoel

    GODS love in this the love of God was made manifest that God sent his only son into the world but we must respond we must be lievewe must commit our lives to Jesus Christ and trust him as our savior and lord hallelujah praised our mighty living lord name amen and amen 🙏 🙌

  • Comment Link Ogbodo Eunice Ogomegbunam Friday, 03 December 2021 03:44 posted by Ogbodo Eunice Ogomegbunam

    God bless Pastor Joseph Prince and all those working with him to see that this gospel is spread. When ever I listen to pastor or read his message online,i never remain the same. I got relieve. I got joy. Heaviness gives way. Only joy and celebration becomes the order of the day. Thank you so much for allowing God to use you,

  • Comment Link My darling Friday, 03 December 2021 01:57 posted by My darling

    Glory halelujah 🙏

Joseph Prince

Joseph Prince (born 15 May 1963, Singapore) is the senior pastor of New Creation Church in Singapore, one of Asia's biggest churches. He was one of the church's founders in 1983.

Joseph Prince, the son of a Sikh priest of Indian origin and a Chinese mother, spent his primary school years in Perak, Malaysia.

Prince changed his birth name to Joseph Prince during his previous occupation as an IT consultant.

Prince has been ...

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