A choice to love..
Posted by Nie Cristal on Friday, June 19, 2009
Under: love
Today's devotion: 2 John 1:5-6
"And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his commands is that you walk in love." ~ 2 John 1:6
Love is not as simple as we put it on our mouth. It's not just about sharing; it's about moving on from sharing to taking action over what we share. It's not just about caring; it's about giving our time. It's not just about forgiving; it's about giving our trust again. It's not just about reconciling; it's about deleting the past record of wrongs. It's not just about giving our trust once more; it's about always trusting without doubts. It's about how Jesus would always do in the same situation we are in now.
Each level of love is getting gradually difficult, but Jesus, in the weak human form like us, passed all the tests. If you want to know the secret behind His excellent test results, it's none other than by His obedience to the Father through the strength of the Holy Spirit.
Do we not have all that Jesus had? God is here, waiting for us to reach out our hands to Him for strength to love like He does. God provides us every strength we need to love one another just like how Jesus could. But our first key to failure is our selfishness. We worry too much about ourselves.
To love the sick person like someone with HIV disease, we feel sympathy but we are afraid of getting the infection. We just can't trust our God that He can protect us and cure us from the incurable disease.
To love the unloved children, we pity on them but we are afraid of extra burden, mentally and financially. We just can't trust our God that He is sending us blessings through these unwanted children.
We love our loved ones so much as long as they love us as much too but when we get hurt by them, we first think of protecting ourselves and thinking that they don't deserve our trust anymore. We just can't trust God's Word that the power of our selfless love can save souls.
Many more examples to ponder, and realize how selfish we are all this while. All we think is "I, me, my, mine". We are so good in loving people who love us. We always think of something of at least with mutual gain: You love me, then I love you; you don't love me, then why should I love you.
It's a barrier in our spiritual growth which we all need a cry of break-through. Brothers and sisters, let's keep one another reminded at every moment that, we are saved by God's selfless love. Thus, we have to learn to love selflessly, too.
You will be amazed to know how much your willingness can help save souls by loving one another selflessly.
"And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his commands is that you walk in love." ~ 2 John 1:6
Love is not as simple as we put it on our mouth. It's not just about sharing; it's about moving on from sharing to taking action over what we share. It's not just about caring; it's about giving our time. It's not just about forgiving; it's about giving our trust again. It's not just about reconciling; it's about deleting the past record of wrongs. It's not just about giving our trust once more; it's about always trusting without doubts. It's about how Jesus would always do in the same situation we are in now.
Each level of love is getting gradually difficult, but Jesus, in the weak human form like us, passed all the tests. If you want to know the secret behind His excellent test results, it's none other than by His obedience to the Father through the strength of the Holy Spirit.
Do we not have all that Jesus had? God is here, waiting for us to reach out our hands to Him for strength to love like He does. God provides us every strength we need to love one another just like how Jesus could. But our first key to failure is our selfishness. We worry too much about ourselves.
To love the sick person like someone with HIV disease, we feel sympathy but we are afraid of getting the infection. We just can't trust our God that He can protect us and cure us from the incurable disease.
To love the unloved children, we pity on them but we are afraid of extra burden, mentally and financially. We just can't trust our God that He is sending us blessings through these unwanted children.
We love our loved ones so much as long as they love us as much too but when we get hurt by them, we first think of protecting ourselves and thinking that they don't deserve our trust anymore. We just can't trust God's Word that the power of our selfless love can save souls.
Many more examples to ponder, and realize how selfish we are all this while. All we think is "I, me, my, mine". We are so good in loving people who love us. We always think of something of at least with mutual gain: You love me, then I love you; you don't love me, then why should I love you.
It's a barrier in our spiritual growth which we all need a cry of break-through. Brothers and sisters, let's keep one another reminded at every moment that, we are saved by God's selfless love. Thus, we have to learn to love selflessly, too.
You will be amazed to know how much your willingness can help save souls by loving one another selflessly.
Love, because you're created by and for it..
In : love
