March 22, 2024 … Love In Action …

March 22, 2024 …  Love In Action …      

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Tauren Wells singing … Love Is Action …  Powerfully singing of how we Christians need to put Christlike love into action by the way we live or lives in serving our Lord and others.   

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Highlight Passage: … 1John 3:18 [NLT] … 

18 Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions..           

… God calls on ALL Christians to show our love for one another, like Christ did, … by being willing to die to help others                      

Highlight Passage (in context): …  1John 3:16-18 … USE THIS LINK …

…God, thru the Apostle John’s exhortation, calls on His born-again children to show Christlike love to others thru our sacrificial deeds to help others in need.                      

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Reference Passage: … Matthew 5:44 [NLT] …  

44 But I say, love your enemies Pray for those who persecute you!   

… Jesus, in His sermon on the mount to followers, calls on all who believe in Him as Messiah to show their (our) love for others by even loving our enemies or our persecutors.     

Reference Passage: … John 3:16, 13:34 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus shows the extent of God’s love for believers, commanding fellow Christians to love the way Jesus love His chosen, … by being willing even to die for them (us).          

Reference Passage: … Romans 5:8 [NLT] …  

8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

…All born-again Christians have been chosen and called to love others the way Christ loved them (us).  

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 13:4-7 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians what love in action really looks like in the way Christians live.                             

Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:14 [NLT] …  

14 Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. 

… Paul also calls on fellow Christians to clothe themselves (ourselves) in Christ-like love.   

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 4:8 [NLT] …  

8 Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins. 

… Peter shows God’s priority of living to love others as Christlike love covers our sin with the love of Christ. 

 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Lisa M Samoa -  AT THIS LINK -  tells of a restaurant owner in Wisconsin, during the COVID pandemic, encouraged by the sharing of other fellow restauranteurs in his area, invested more that $2000 to purchase and distribute greeting cards for ALL their restaurants to assure customers that they were all doing their best to protect their customers by the way they practiced healthy business practices. .   

And that’s the kind of LOVE IN ACTION that we all need to realize and put into action which shows others Christlike love by the way we Christians live our lives to help others.  And taking in the linked song and the Scriptures shared here today, are you, as I am, asking ourselves what we can do TODAY to share and show the love of Christ to others.                       

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me opportunities to share Your love with others.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me again today, … to do all we can to shine and share Your light of love, Lord, in this ever darkening world.   … Amen

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