Nov 21, 2008
When We Practice Real Love…
I was reading in I John 3 this morning for my daily worship and this passage from The Message translation hit me. It is so much of my doctoral worship in life formation:
18-20 My dear children, let’s not just talk about love; let’s practice real love. This is the only way we’ll know we’re living truly, living in God’s reality. It’s also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves.
21-24 And friends, once that’s taken care of and we’re no longer accusing or condemning ourselves, we’re bold and free before God! We’re able to stretch our hands out and receive what we asked for because we’re doing what he said, doing what pleases him. Again, this is God’s command: to believe in his personally named Son, Jesus Christ. He told us to love each other, in line with the original command. As we keep his commands, we live deeply and surely in him, and he lives in us. And this is how we experience his deep and abiding presence in us: by the Spirit he gave us.
Our freedom to live and be all that we are in Christ is a result of us understanding ourselves, having the love of God cast out the fear and doubt that the world has programmed us with. May you discover who God created you to be.
I want to recommend a book for this: it’s called Free To Be You.
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