Put
Your Love into Action
TODAY’S
SCRIPTURE
If anyone has this world’s
goods (resources for sustaining life) and sees his brother and fellow believer
in need, yet closes his heart of compassion against him, how can the love of
God live and remain in him? Let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech but
in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:17-18, AMP.
TODAY’S
WORD
I’ve heard it said that you
can give without loving, but you can’t love without giving. Notice this verse
tells us that love isn’t just about our words or thoughts, it’s about our
actions. Love is about reaching out and meeting the needs of others. Sometimes
meeting someone’s needs is as simple as a smile or sharing a word of
encouragement. There are many ways to show the love of God. Can you pay for
someone’s gas or groceries? Do you see a need in someone’s life that you can
meet? Remember, you are the hands and feet of Jesus in the earth. The Lord
wants to bless you today so that you can be a blessing to others. He wants to
work through you to show His love and compassion.
Today and every day, look
for ways to put your love into action. The Bible says that it’s His kindness
that leads people to repentance. He wants to show His kindness in the earth
through you. Step out and sow good seeds of love by meeting the needs of
others. God promises that those seeds will produce an abundant harvest in your
life in return!
PRAYER
FOR TODAY
Heavenly Father, thank You
for Your hand of blessing in my life. Thank You for choosing to work through me
today. I submit myself and my resources to You. Show me ways to be a blessing
to others so that the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Your glory in
Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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"A time to embrace and a time to refrain." (Ecclesiastes 3:5b NIV)
God never intended for us to make completing a to-do list the purpose of our lives. Yet, many of us keep trying to cram more and more into each day.
The fact is, there are many things we think we must do that really are not worth doing. My point is this: You won’t simplify your life by getting an electronic organizer. You won’t even do it by convincing your neighbor, who makes Martha Stewart look like a sloth, to give you tips about coordinating your activities.
Simplifying is really about choices — prioritizing what is important — and then sticking to those choices no matter how tempting it is to add more to your to-do list. In fact, take those tempting activities and put them on a list of thingsnot to do.
You are the only one who can assume responsibility for your time and clarify what’s really important to you.
Now, maybe you’re thinking, “But I have to take care of the kids,” or “I have to get this report done by Friday.” I’m not naïve about the pressures many people feel today, but it may be that those things — your children, your work — are the priorities you keep on your to-do list, and you move other things to the not-to-do list.
Talk About It
- You are the only one who can assume responsibility for your time and clarify what’s really important to you.
- Re-evaluate your to-do list for today. What's really important? What can be moved to the not-to-do-list?
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