The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.—Galatians 5:6b (NIV)
And it is impossible to please God without faith.—Hebrews 11:6a (NLT)
Love never fails.—1 Corinthians 13:8a (NIV)
Heavenly Father,
In response to Your love for me, help me to put my attention on that which truly matters and not allow myself to be distracted from that which pleases you—faith expressed through love.
Fill me with Your compassionate
love for others, so I might learn how to love everyone with the same
sacrificial love with which You first loved me—not with some less-than-adequate
human love which self-centeredly picks and chooses when to love and who to
love.
Help me to love in
obedience, when I don’t really want to love—when I’m just not feeling it—and when
I can’t see any apparent return for my efforts.
Help me to love sacrificially
those who I may think don’t deserve my love—who may be oblivious to my actions
of love—and to whom my love seems to make no difference.
Help me love in faith,
having faith that my expression of the God-kind of love always accomplishes the
purpose for which You have ordained it—whether by changing the other person, or
by bringing about a change in myself—and that it never falls uselessly to the
ground.
In response to Your love for me, help me to put my attention on that which truly matters and not allow myself to be distracted from that which pleases you—faith expressed through love.
In the name of Jesus,
Amen.
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