Tuesday November 30, 2021
WALK IN LOVE
SCRIPTURE READING: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’. There is no commandment greater than these. Mark 12:30-31 (NIV)
As I think about Advent and preparing for Christmas, the lines from this poem by Christina Rossetti come to mind:
“Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love divine;
Love was born at Christmas,
Star and angels gave the sign”.
For my daily devotions this year I have been reading Bob Goff’s book, “Live in Grace, Walk in Love”. As the title indicates, the daily readings are filled with what the Bible has to tell us about living in grace and love; being a reflection of Jesus to all. I have been blessed by these readings.
I have struggled with the divisiveness in our country that has been so apparent this past year. Maybe some of you have too. When I look at Jesus’ life, He did not love only the perfect person, the one who looked like Him, the one who came from a certain town or area.
Jesus loved everyone!
I like this quote from Bob Goff’s book, “Don’t separate the truth of the scriptures from the issue of the day, but do separate the person from the issues. It’ll take some humility and even more guts, but if we do, we’ll learn a lot about love, and we’ll welcome people who have
perhaps felt far away from God.”
If we keep love in the front of our hearts and minds and look at others through the love Jesus has for everyone, we can and will be bringing His light and hope into a broken world. That is my hope for myself and this world we live in.
PRAYER: Heavenly Father, we thank you for the greatest gift of love, Your Son, Jesus. Help us to share His love to the world not only during the season of Advent, but each day throughout the New Year. We know, with your help, we can learn to love like Jesus loved. In His name we pray, Amen.
Roberta Nelson
