The Law of Love – The Presidential Prayer Team

Great peace have those who love your law nothing can make them stumble. – Psalm 119:165

People do not generally think of the law as pleasant or fun. Today’s verse says that those who love God’s law will have peace and not stumble. There are many reasons to love the law. Can you imagine driving without laws and how many accidents there would be? Laws are provided for protection and well-being. Though laws may seem burdensome at times, they offer great benefits to society. Likewise, obeying the Lord is for your benefit. God’s laws are provided to bring about and maintain a healthy society.

One day a lawyer asked Jesus, “‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?’ And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets’” (Matthew 22:36-40). Let the law of love be your ultimate guide in all your decision-making and actions. This will give your life peace and stability in a troubled world.

Pray for the healing of the division in the United States. Ask that the hearts of Americans would turn toward the Lord and that they would grow in His love so that this country might continue in harmony and peace. Intercede for fellow believers to be conduits of God’s love and grace. Pray that this nation’s governing officials would pursue God and His law of love. Ask for God’s mercy on the United States on behalf of His people and that His name will be glorified.

Today’s Verse: Psalm 119:165

Great peace have those who love your law;
    nothing can make them stumble.

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Recommended for further reading: 1 John 3:11-24

¹¹For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. ¹²We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. ¹³Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. ¹⁴We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. ¹⁵Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

¹⁶By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. ¹⁷But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? ¹⁸Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

¹⁹By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; ²⁰for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. ²¹Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; ²²and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. ²³And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. ²⁴Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.