Wednesday Reading: Romans 12:9-13
Key Verse: Romans 12:12
12 rejoicing in hope, patient in affliction, steadfastly continuing in prayer,
Devotion:
If you are going to say that you love someone, what else are you going to do about it? No, just saying that you love someone is not enough because we are human and do silly things. If you want to say that you love someone then you should go about showing them that you are willing to love them at all times and through everything. It is no good saying that you will love them but then change your mind when the going gets tough or when things go wrong – that is the standard fickleness of humans and should never be applied as an excuse when we talk about love. Love should be true, honest, everlasting and absolutely sure! If you, like me, have thought that you have been in love in the past and then found out the hard way that it was your worldly desires and not true love, then you will be one step closer to knowing true love when it does come your way.
But let’s not get hung up on talking about that one true love – because that should be God first of all. Let us rather talk about the love that we should have for each person that we meet. When Christ told us to love our neighbours and to love our enemies it was because He knew that we would be facing some pretty strange people in our lives – we may be very peculiar to others!
If you love someone then you are not going to wish bad things upon them. If you love someone you will not go out of your way to trip them up or to place stumbling blocks in front of them. If you love someone you will want to care for them and support them in ways which go above and beyond that which is called for by humans. That love should be what we carry round for everyone we meet. Yes it will be hard. Yes we will falter. But from it better things will grow. If you love someone, don’t follow them into temptation – that is saying to them that they should be ‘bad’ people… that is not love… God’s love does not lead us into temptation!
Points to Ponder:
“Do you love me”?
What would your answer be to Christ?