But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. —1 Thessalonians 5:8-9
It is this revelation of Jesus’s ravished heart for us that awakens our hearts to fervency for Him. It ignites holy passion in us. It is His love for us and our response of love and devotion back to Him that act as a breastplate of love, guarding our hearts with holy affections in times of temptation.
{ PRAYER STARTER }
If Your love is so passionate for me, dear Father, then I am filled with such an intense longing to devote my heart and life to pleasing You. Guard my heart, dear Father, and draw me ever closer to You.
Jesus yearns for you with a longing for
an even more intimate relationship with Him.
