In Love
3/31/2009
1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all that you do be done in love.
This is probably one of the hardest verses in all of Scripture, for this verse calls for great determination and effort to deny self and live according to what God has desired – loving others. To love means to accept others just as they are with no real expectation that they will ever change. To love means to avail one’s self to God incessantly so that true love may find its root and flourish.
The fruit of the Spirit is love. Love is seeking the best for others often at your own expense. To love means to have your heart broken – repeatedly.
I really want to love, but most of the time I’m like a bull or a baby in a china shop – one simply moves and knocks things over; the other fingers everything, tastes everything, and knocks things over.
Today I see what a pauper I am to love and how desperately I want to get over the burdens of my own heart and life. I will avail myself to the Holy Spirit and seek to love as He loves and to emulate His practice.
Father in Heaven,
You love for that is who You are. I want to be liked for that is who I am. But I need to learn how to behave in china shops and how to deal with people. I confess I am not very wise at times and I get suckered in – like yesterday. But Lord more than anything help me to remember that You love me and are teaching me to love as You love and to keep my opinions to myself. Help me God I pray in Jesus’ Name, amen.
