If you love me, you will obey my commandments. -- John 14:15
The question to love him is a trick question. The greater one is, "which commands?" Fortunately he told me, and it is all good news. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength. Love your neighbor as yourself. Go and make disciples [as a team]. (The verb conjugation is plural.) Even in making disciples, the motivation, method and goal, is all love. It is one thing to know this intellectually, but do my words and actions reflect the love I have been shown?
Prayer: Jesus, forgive me where I have been judgmental, bitter, too tired and too wrapped up in myself to reveal your love to the people around me. Help me strive to see with a bigger heart so I don't judge. Help me to forgive as I have been forgiven. Help me take the effort to make people feel special even when I am tired. Help me turn my eyes outwards to the hurts and needs of others. Perform a miracle of love in me, so that I can do the same to others.
Red Letters is a devotion for Lent 2018 by Chris Michael Moore of His Call Church - ヒズコールチャーチ