Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.--Romans 12:9 (NLT)
Loving Lord,
Help me to love like You love, hate that which is evil and ungodly, and cling tightly to that which is good.
I don’t want
to be a hypocrite, pretending to love others, but having my actions, or perhaps
my failure to act, expose the true attitudes and intentions of my heart.
I want to
love others truly and out of a pure heart—moved with the compassion of Christ into
action on their behalf and motivated by the love of Jesus, alive in me.
I want to
hate the evil and ungodliness I find in myself and that which I find in the
world and—being disgusted by it—reject it, fight against it, or flee from it,
clinging only to those things that are good and right—that is, those things
that are from You, Lord.
Through Your
Word, teach me Your love, so that I might walk more completely in it, loving others
purely and truly at all times.
Help me to love like You love, hate that which is evil and ungodly, and cling tightly to that which is good.
In the name
of Jesus, Amen.
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