Sunday Reading: Romans 12:9-10
Key Verse: Romans 12:9
9 Let love be without hypocrisy, shrinking from evil, cleaving to good;
Devotion:
What does love seem to be in today’s society? Love seems to be a word that allows you to express your liking someone for that moment and no longer a time-enduring statement of your emotional attachment to another. Love seems to have been taken away from us through ever decreasing (in time) but increasing (in frequency) relationships displayed between people some of whom ought not to even be going there! Love has become a commodity through which short-term feelings are traded.
Whatever happened to the love that we used to express; the love that stood the test of time and still continues no matter how long we live? God has not given up on His love for us because it is the same today as it was in the beginning. Christ showed us the commitment behind His love for us by paying for our sin debt once and for all. God’s love is not a flash in the pan like we seem to treat it nowadays. That is how we can compare true love against what we can only then term as short-term lust...
If we are able to leave hypocrisy and evil behind when we progress in a relationship, then we move closer to love. If we hold on to everything that is good and treat what we have with each other as brotherly love, then when true love does finally show its head we will actually know the difference! Brotherly love is the love that we have for each other as we do love our families. It is a love that will hold fast but not one that means that we have to cut everyone else off after. It is a love that includes and does not exclude. It is a love that is real and enduring. If we can embrace that sort of love again then maybe we will have a better chance at making sure the love gets its true meaning back! Maybe then we can love each other the way God wants us to.
Points to Ponder:
How do you treat love?
Do you think of God’s love towards you?
