Deuteronomy 5-7<\/a><\/p>\nDaily Thought<\/h2>\n
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:5). If we love because we are commanded to love, is it truly love? Isn’t love “a many-splendored thing,” a rapturous mystery that springs from my heart, over which I have little if any control?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nNot according to God’s Word, and not according to life either.\u00a0Attraction springs up and disappears at its own whim, but not love.\u00a0True love begins with a decision, I choose to love you.\u00a0I choose to love you no matter how I feel or how you make me feel.\u00a0I love you the way I have learned to love, the way God has loved me.\u00a0No matter what, even at my worst, God sacrificed his best for me\u2013”God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).\u00a0God wills his best toward me, and I in turn will my best toward others. I love them as I love myself.<\/p>\n
More than feeling and beyond choice, love is action, and often an act of sacrifice.\u00a0“God so loved … that he gave” (John 3:16).\u00a0Count the emotions in 1Corinthians 13:4-8, “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”\u00a0I count one, maybe\u2013irritable could be an emotion, and even that is what love is not, not what it is.<\/p>\n
What love is is displayed by God toward me in his Son, Jesus Christ; and by me, in turn, toward God, presenting all of me, my heart, my soul, my might, to him.\u00a0When I love God in this way, I will love those he loves, as well\u2013my neighbors.<\/p>\n
Daily Prayer<\/h2>\n
Heavenly Father, I am amazed at Your love.\u00a0Your Son sacrificed for my sake.\u00a0Your Son considering me and everyone else on this planet above Himself.\u00a0He released His hold on Your presence, and emptied Himself of glory, and died.\u00a0Shamefully died for my shame.<\/p>\n
Thank You.\u00a0You saved me, showed me what love looks like, and gave me the capacity to love others.\u00a0If You had not first loved me, I would not even know what love looks like, because I was consumed with me first.\u00a0But now, I too am learning to consider others before and above me.\u00a0To love them as I love myself.\u00a0What an amazing love.<\/p>\n
Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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