Day 108 I’m Bankrupt Without Love
1 Corinthians 13:2-7 (The Message)
If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. 3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
This makes me want to fall to my knees and say, “Teach me to love, God!” Nothing means nothing!! If I can’t love, I am nothing!!
Sometimes we are afraid to love because that means we will have to invest ourselves in someone else’s life. What if we have been disappointed before? We put ourselves out there and it backfired. They ended up disliking us and worse than that, talking against us to others.
In typing this I am thinking, “How trivial!” Jesus loved and put Himself out there and look what they did to Him! That makes my little “betrayal” look pretty pitiful.
In the above verse, we are called to overcome our flesh and love those God puts us in touch with. As we see the people through the eyes of Jesus, we can love.
Galatians 5:22 (New International Version, ©2011)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
As Christians we should be producing the fruit of love. People need to know that they are loved so they can receive the love of the Father. We are to reach out to them and put them in touch with the Father’s love. That’s our purpose in life.
God wants us to bear fruit. We are carriers of the love of God in this earth. That means we need to get rid of our “self” so that we have the room to carry His love.
GPS (Directions)
· For the next 24 hours take note of the times when “self” in you rises to the top and takes precedence over your thoughts, behavior and choices.
· When thoughts of “self” do surface, surrender them before God and think about what your purpose is in that particular situation.
· Write in your journal those choices that you ended up making in each situation. In doing so, you will find that you are training yourself in “selflessness.” You will then have more capacity to carry the love of God to those who so desperately need it.
Prayer Focus:
Father, show me those areas where I put myself, my thoughts and my will before Yours. Forgive me for those times, Lord, and help me to be more sensitive to what You want me to do in each circumstance.
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