Morning Prayer 

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Inspiration 

Propitiation is a seldom used and little understood term but still conveys a very important Biblical concept. When Christ "propitiated" our sins on the cross, he makes full satisfaction to the righteous demands of God's justice. He satisfied the wrath of God in our place and bore in his body the pain of a Roman cross. That is love.

Prayer 

O Lover of my soul, when you revealed to me that love with which you loved me from all eternity, it was then that I knew what love really was. You taught me what it is to love on the cross of Calvary. Teach me to love you and others the way that you have loved me. Show me wherein I have failed to truly love, and help me to follow the example of your steps of love and holiness. Amen.