Week 5 Devotionals

The Beatles famously said, “All you need is love.” The reality is that this statement is truer than most realize, but our understanding of love is limited—it is often dependent and conditional. That is not the love that people need; instead, we need true love.

God’s love displayed in Scripture and experienced in our lives goes beyond the love we know and experience on a daily basis. 1 John 4:16 says, “God is love.” Love is who He is; it is His character. He came to this earth to display this perfect love, to show Himself, and to provide an opportunity for all of us to experience what we long for—love. Consider Romans 5:8: “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

“All we need is love,” and the good news is that love is given to us in Jesus Christ.

-Jim Sappia