“Your love depends not on me, but on You” by Peter Sanlon

“God, at the centre of Your unchanging being is love.

Love that is so pure, so perfect, so infinite, so raw and alive that it pursued me to the cross.

Forgive me for ever wanting to hurt You, and for my doubting Your love.

Thank You that You sent Your Son into the world, and Your Spirit into my heart, to make me feel the supernatural reality of Your love for me.

Not love in general, not mere words, gestures or ideals.

But the intimate joy of heaven, poured out on a person such as me, who not only fails to understand it but who does not deserve it.

I praise You that Your love cannot weaken, fade or change.

I thank You that you are the source of Your unchanging love, for You are Your love.

It is with such relief that I realize Your love depends not on me, but on You.

I cast myself upon You, with love that is awakened by Your love, sustained by Your grace and bound for Your glory.

In Jesus’ name. Amen.”

–Peter Sanlon, Simply God: Recovering the Classical Trinity (Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 2014), 143.