Love & Living

"By identifying the greatest commandment as loving God with all we are , Jesus reinforces this message by calling us to vigorous, creative, full-throttled living." Carolyn James said this, and it challenges me.

If loving is the most important thing we do, then we need to live "full-throttle" as Carolyn said. We need to live to the hilt. We need to be fully present, fully engaged. We need all of us living out and pouring out. Love requires us all to give our all.

Rejoice in Your Love

"I will be glad and rejoice in your love..." Psalm 31:7

How are you rejoicing in love today?

How is your gladness evident?

Have you counted your blessings lately?

Be glad. Rejoice. LOVE!

Let Your Love Show

"...I do not conceal your love and your truth..." Psalm 40:10

How do you hide God's truth? How do you deny God's love?

Question your actions and intentions and examine whether you are not living out fully and truthfully all the truths and love you have found in God, that God has shown you.

Don't hide your light as Jesus explained in Matthew 5:15.

Does Love Follow You?

"Surely, goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Psalm 23:6

What an assurance. Look for the love that is following you. And, while you're looking, notice:

"The Lord Himself goes before you, and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you." (Deuteronomy 31:8)

So, if God goes before you, and love follows you...it's going to be good!

Love & Comfort

"Love opens the door for comfort. Where there is love, there is comfort." Gray said this and it's truth hit me. Since it's his birthday I celebrate today. I celebrate this truth. I thank God for the comfort He has given me through him. I thank God for opening a door I had closed. I have been comforted. Be comforted: Love, and accept love.

Difficult Can Be Good

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get." Confucius

What's easy, may not be best.
Sometimes, the harder is the easiest (best) in the long run.

Sometimes, making a choice to make it harder on you, will be the best thing you ever did.

Love may be difficult, but it is worth it. You're worth it. Learn to love.

How You Respond

"Let His greater love shape your response to every disappointment and to every fearful thought."

(Ann Spangler, Praying the Names of Jesus, p. 219)

What a grand goal. What a great desire.

Let His love, that is greater than anything we can perceive, shape our very responses.

It will change our lives.