Love | Advent Week 4
This devotional comes from our Advent 2025 booklet, In Quiet Expectation.
If you weren't able to pick up a copy, don't worry! We're sharing our devotionals here to help you reflect on the meaning of the season—the arrival of Jesus Christ, whose very birth began to minister to those who encountered Him.
Join us in celebrating Advent by lighting the fourth candle of Love.
If you weren't able to pick up a copy, don't worry! We're sharing our devotionals here to help you reflect on the meaning of the season—the arrival of Jesus Christ, whose very birth began to minister to those who encountered Him.
Join us in celebrating Advent by lighting the fourth candle of Love.
Read: Psalm 135
“Your name, Lord, endures forever, your renown, Lord, through all generations” (v. 13).
Psalm 135 reminds us that love isn’t just something God feels—it’s who He is. The psalmist is looking back on generations of God’s people and sees a pattern. When they were helpless, He rescued them. When they forgot, He remembered. When they wandered, He drew them back.
His love is active, faithful, and personal.
The same God who parted the Red Sea and spoke through the prophets stepped into the world as a child—love incarnate. While the world around us chases after things that promise joy but can’t deliver, especially during this season, we’re invited to remember that the love of God still seeks, still speaks, and still saves.
The love we are reminded of during Advent isn’t sentimental, but steady. It moves toward us when we’re at our worst and holds fast when everything else feels uncertain.
Advent reminds us of His first coming and the promises He fulfilled long ago—and it points us to what’s still to come. He is still actively pursuing us, even when we aren’t pursuing Him. He alone is the One who truly satisfies.
Let us rest in His love this Advent, confident that the One who came still comes—and that His love will not let us go.
Psalm 135 reminds us that love isn’t just something God feels—it’s who He is. The psalmist is looking back on generations of God’s people and sees a pattern. When they were helpless, He rescued them. When they forgot, He remembered. When they wandered, He drew them back.
His love is active, faithful, and personal.
The same God who parted the Red Sea and spoke through the prophets stepped into the world as a child—love incarnate. While the world around us chases after things that promise joy but can’t deliver, especially during this season, we’re invited to remember that the love of God still seeks, still speaks, and still saves.
The love we are reminded of during Advent isn’t sentimental, but steady. It moves toward us when we’re at our worst and holds fast when everything else feels uncertain.
Advent reminds us of His first coming and the promises He fulfilled long ago—and it points us to what’s still to come. He is still actively pursuing us, even when we aren’t pursuing Him. He alone is the One who truly satisfies.
Let us rest in His love this Advent, confident that the One who came still comes—and that His love will not let us go.
Written by
Doug Hodges, Millbrook Campus Pastor
Reflect:
Where have you been looking for a love that can’t last—and how would it change your life to rest again in the love of Christ?
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