Romans 15 Devotional: Why Love Gives First | 7-Step Quiet Time Guide

 Why Love Gives First 💌

7-Step QT

  1. 🙏 Quiet Time

  2. 📅 October 10, 2025

  3. ✝️ Romans 15:22-33

  4. 📖 For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem (v. 26).

  5. 📝 Paul highlights the generosity of Gentile churches toward Jerusalem’s poor, rooted in the “debt of love” (Romans 13:8–10). Love—not obligation—motivates giving. Likewise, we’re called to act with compassion, offering help without hesitation or excuses. True love moves first, reflecting the gospel in practical, selfless ways.

  6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

  7. 🙏 Share below, and let’s encourage one another in prayer!

7-Step QT Notes

1. 🙏 Quiet Time

Pause.
Take a deep breath.
Ask God to give you a heart that loves generously and serves without hesitation.

2. 📅 October 10, 2025

Today’s passage reminds us:
Love gives first—because love is a debt we always owe.

3. ✝️ Romans 15:22–33

Paul shares his travel plans and mentions a special mission: delivering a financial gift from the churches in Macedonia and Achaia to the poor believers in Jerusalem. These Gentile Christians gave joyfully—not out of obligation, but out of love and gratitude for the gospel they received.

4. 📖 Key Verse

“For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.” (v. 26)

5. 📝 Reflection

Why would churches far away care about believers they’ve never met? Paul explains: because love is a debt we never finish paying (Romans 13:8).

They gave because they loved—not for recognition, not for return, but because the gospel changes how we see people.

Our culture often asks, “What’s in it for me?” But Jesus calls us to ask, “Who can I love today?”

Look around: a friend struggling with bills, a coworker feeling isolated, a classmate battling anxiety. Love moves first. Generosity is love in action.

So, what would it look like for you to give—not out of guilt, but out of love—this week?

6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

  • Who around me needs a helping hand or a listening ear?
  • How can I make generosity a lifestyle, not just a one-time act?
  • What step can I take today to love without expecting anything in return?

7. 🙏 Prayer

Lord, open my eyes to the needs around me.
Teach me to give freely, just as You gave everything for me.
Help me love without hesitation or excuses.
Amen.

Scriptures

📖 22 This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you. 23 But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you, 24 I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be helped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a while. 25 At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem bringing aid to the saints. 26 For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem. 27 For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings. 28 When therefore I have completed this and have delivered to them what has been collected, I will leave for Spain by way of you. 29 I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

30 I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf, 31 that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, 32 so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company. 33 May the God of peace be with you all. Amen (Rom 15:22-33, ESV).

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