Worldwide Christmas December 26, 2025 Devotional

1 JOHN 4:7-11 | ⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. ⁹ God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.

Our energy is limited. We can only stay awake so many hours. We can only accomplish so many tasks, run so many errands, make so many calls. Our time too is a limited resource. No manner of       praying will make an hour one minute longer or extend a day one hour more.

But as Joseph, Mary, the shepherds, and wise men discovered, love, mercy, and grace are not limited resources. The more we love, the greater our capacity to love. Our hearts, when connected to the purposes and person of God, grow in limitless ways. As we open our hearts, we find they have additional room, like a house that keeps growing new wings.

Are you good at stewarding your limited resources of time,    energy and money?

Are you good at taking the faith risks that expand your capacity to love?

Gracious God,

Expand our hearts. Fill us with love from Your endless supply. We ask in the name of the Savior.

Amen.