Love With Faith
There’s a beauty in how Paul closes his letter to the Ephesians — not with formality, but with blessing: “Peace to the brothers and sisters, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” It’s that phrase love with faith that lingers.
Paul could have said love. He could have said faith. Each is a gift. Each is complete in itself. But together — love with faith — we glimpse something deeper. The pairing reveals the richness of what God gives us in Christ: not just one dimension of His goodness, but the fullness of His heart.
Sometimes I picture it like a key turning in a lock. The two work together. One turns, the other opens. And when they do, something long shut begins to give way. Love with faith meets us in the places we’ve closed off the quiet places of fear, of doubt, of weariness and gently opens them to hope again.
Maybe that’s what you need today — not just love or faith, but the reminder that in Christ, you are held by both. Faith that believes. Love that stays. Together, they welcome us back into the peace God has always desired to give.
Love with faith.
That’s how God gives.
That’s how we receive.
And it might just be the key.