40 Days of Love

By Paul David Tripp

A 40 Day Devotional on Love from Paul David Tripp
This series of short devotionals from popular author and speaker Paul David Tripp encourages Christians to experience the life-giving message of the gospel every day. Each book contains 40 daily readings curated from the best-selling devotional New Morning Mercies and focused on a particular theme essential to the Christian life. Short enough to read in 5 minutes or less, each meditation will encourage readers to treasure the life-changing truths of God's word more fully.
Only God's love can satisfy the longing of our hearts. Through 40 daily meditations from his best-selling devotional New Morning Mercies, popular author and speaker Paul David Tripp explores the glorious beauty of God's love. Tripp encourages us not to put our hope in the imperfect love that the world offers, but rather to cling to the faithful and enduring love of God—the only love that will never disappoint.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crossway Books
• Release date: Mar 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781433574405

Paul David Tripp

Paul David Tripp (DMin, Westminster Theological Seminary) is a pastor, an award-winning author, and an international conference speaker. He has written numerous books, including Lead; Parenting; and the bestselling devotional New Morning Mercies. His not-for-profit ministry exists to connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. Tripp lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Luella, and they have four grown children.

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40

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Love

Books by Paul David Tripp

40 Days of Faith

40 Days of Grace

40 Days of Hope

40 Days of Love

A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger Than You

Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide for Parenting Teens (Resources for Changing Lives)

Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do

Broken-Down House: Living Productively in a World Gone Bad

Come, Let Us Adore Him: A Daily Advent Devotional

Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry

Forever: Why You Can’t Live without It

Grief: Finding Hope Again

How People Change (with Timothy S. Lane)

Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change (Resources for Changing Lives)

Journey to the Cross: A 40-Day Lenten Devotional

Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church

Lost in the Middle: Midlife and the Grace of God

My Heart Cries Out: Gospel Meditations for Everyday Life

New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional

Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

Redeeming Money: How God Reveals and Reorients Our Hearts

Sex in a Broken World: How Christ Redeems What Sin Distorts

Shelter in the Time of Storm: Meditations on God and Trouble

Suffering: Eternity Makes a Difference (Resources for Changing Lives)

Suffering: Gospel Hope When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

Teens and Sex: How Should We Teach Them? (Resources for Changing Lives)

War of Words: Getting to the Heart of Your Communication Struggles (Resources for Changing Lives)

What Did You Expect?: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage

Whiter Than Snow: Meditations on Sin and Mercy

40

Days

of

Love

Paul David Tripp

40 Days of Love

Copyright © 2021 by Paul David Tripp

Published by Crossway

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The devotions in this book appeared previously in Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014).

Cover design: Josh Dennis

First printing, 2021

Printed in the United States of America

All Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

All emphases in Scripture quotations have been added by the author.

Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-7437-5

ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-7440-5

PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-7438-2

Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-7439-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Tripp, Paul David, 1950- author. 

Title: 40 days of love / Paul David Tripp. 

Other titles: Forty days of love

Description: Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2021. | "The devotions in this book appeared previously in Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies : A Daily Gospel Devotional (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014)."

Identifiers: LCCN 2020038499 (print) | LCCN 2020038500 (ebook) | ISBN 9781433574375 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781433574382 (pdf) | ISBN 9781433574399 (mobi) | ISBN 9781433574405 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Love—Religious aspects—Christianity—Meditations. 

Classification: LCC BV4639 .T76 2021 (print) | LCC BV4639 (ebook) | DDC 242/.2—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020038499

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020038500

Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

2021-03-04 03:52:04 PM

Introduction

It is one of the most wonderful, encouraging, comforting, and motivating passages about God’s grace for us while we live in this groaning world and wait for redemption. It builds to this glorious crescendo:

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,

"For your sake we are being killed all the day long;

we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 8:31–39)

Why is love the crescendo of this remarkable Romans 8 passage? Why is the zenith of all Paul wants us to know about God’s grace a promise of the love of God? Paul understands something very fundamental that reaches to the height and depth of the life of every human being. The highest human joys are connected to love. The greatest human fears are about love. The most painful of human moments have to do with love. The unceasing longing of every human being has to do with love. Everyone cares about love. Everyone thinks about love. Everyone talks about love. Everyone worries about the vulnerability of love. No one has ever had to teach a child to want to be loved or cry when he or she feels unloved. There is no emotion, no experience, and no quest more authentically human than love.

There are two questions that every human being everywhere has asked, regardless of race, ethnicity, geography, history, age, or economic or social status:

Will someone love me?

Once they get to know me, will they still love me?

In this fallen world, the topography of love is rough and rocky. None of us walk a smooth, straight, and sunny pathway of love. Familial love fails all of us in some way. Marital love, with all of its