The Ultimate Love

PRAYER FOR TODAY

Heavenly Father, thank You for Your unfailing love, which You demonstrated by sending Your Son Jesus to die for our sins so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. We will never truly comprehend the grace You have shown us, but we humbly receive it. For if we confess our sins, You are faithful and just to forgive them and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).

As we consider Your great mercy, please help us to walk according to Your ways. We are Your workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which You prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10). By Your Spirit, enable us to do that today.

ONE QUESTION

How often do I reflect on the grace God has shown me, and am I truly humbled by it?

ABOUT THIS PHOTO

• Sh2-190 / IC 1805 (also known as The Heart Nebula) is located about 7,500 light years from Earth.
  
  To capture this image, I used the FSQ-106 530mm f/5 telescope, the Paramount MyT (to follow the earth’s rotation), and the QSI 683wsg-8 (8300) camera. To render all the data, I photo-stacked 51 x 1800 second exposures together for a total of 24 hours of data — 7.5 hours of sulfur, 8.5 hours of hydrogen, and 6.5 hours of oxygen). The sulfur is represented in the outer orange band, followed by hydrogen in green and oxygen in blue.
  
  God is an incredible artist! Be sure to thank Him today for the love He showed us by sending His son, Jesus, over 2,000 years ago to save us from our sins.