Love never fails.—1 Corinthians 13:8a (NIV)And without faith it is impossible to please God…—Hebrews 11:6a (NIV)The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.—Galatians 5:6b (NIV)
Heavenly Father,
With a grateful heart and in response to Your love for me, help me to do only that which pleases You—expressing my faith through love.
Fill me with the love of
Christ, so I might learn how to love others with the same sacrificial love with
which He 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 to Christ’s command, 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 act 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 Christ’s 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.
With a grateful heart and in response to Your love for me, help me to do only that which pleases You—expressing my faith through love.
In the name of Jesus,
Amen.
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