“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”—John 13:34-35 (NIV)
Loving LORD,
Help me to do my part to ensure that when others look at me, they see that I share a great love, one for another, with my brothers and sisters in Christ.
Help me to love others not
only by my words, but by my sacrificial actions, so that everyone will know
that I am a disciple of Jesus Christ.
Let Your sacrifice of love
for me be my only example of how I should love.
Help me to love when it is
not convenient to do so—when it costs me, when it means I have to put the needs
of others in front of my own needs, and when it requires me to refuse to take
up the offense that the actions of others might bring to me and respond to them
without malice.
May the love that I share
with my brothers and sisters in Christ be so obviously demonstrated in truth,
that others will not only recognize that I am a follower of Christ, but be
drawn to the love of Christ in me.
Help me to do my part to ensure that when others look at me, they see that I share a great love, one for another, with my brothers and sisters in Christ.
In the name of Jesus,
Amen.
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