END TIMES READING PLAN: Zechariah 4-6
SCRIPTURE READING
1 John 4:15-16 (NIV); If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives
in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love.
Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
One simple truth that the cross has revealed is God’s great love for us. God loved His
creation since He spoke it into being and formed man from the dust, yet He demonstrated
the fullness of His love when He sent His son to die so that we might live. If He did nothing
else for us, this would be enough.
The love that God demonstrated on the cross has ripples into all areas of our lives, and this
love is powerful. Not only does the Word speak to us of His love for mankind in general, but
the Spirit reveals to us the love that He has for each of us as individuals. As David wrote
in the 139th Psalm, we are each “fearfully and wonderfully made”, designed in the depths
where God imagines us and breathes into us the breath of life. We are often unhappy
and frustrated with ourselves: our character progress is too slow, our body too flawed, our
personality lacking something. Yet God sees us at our worst and is full of overwhelming
love. He saw us in our sin, and it was for those moments that He went to the cross; this
is a staggering grace when we take the time to meditate on it. God sees our struggles
as potential to grow in intimacy with, and likeness of Him. When we seek to find His
perspective of who we are, we will come to know Him more deeply and love him more truly.
PRAYER and MEDITATION
1) Spend some time in conversation with God today, asking Him to give you a fresh
perspective of how He feels about you.
a. Talk to Him about the different areas of your life that you are frustrated with
(character, personality, body image, relationships, sin issues, etc.). Ask Him to
speak to you about the potential that He sees in you.
b. Ask Him to show you His heart. Ask Him what He specifically loves about you, and
write those things down. Thank Him for what He reveals, and ask Him to plant
His truth deep in your heart so that you would feel this same way about yourself.
