Day 3

Why are people so difficult to love sometimes? It’s easy to love people who are loving to us, but why are “other people” so difficult to love?

Well, maybe - just maybe –they’re just like us… flawed people who need a Savior.

The good news is that through our love, we can point “those people” to the One who can bring true healing and restoration to their life. Now this kind of love is hard, especially for people who may be cruel to us. But today we can choose to love those who are difficult to love, regardless of how we feel.

No matter how much we think we know about God’s Word or how many spiritual gifts God has blessed us with, if we don’t have love, we have nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. Faith and hope are so powerful, but the greatest among all the forces of creation is love.

Love opens eyes that were once blind. Love draws people to repentance. God wants us to immerse ourselves in His love and apply it to bring people into the Kingdom of Light.

Do you remember when you first felt the love of God in your life? That’s the kind of love God wants you to give to everyone that you come in contact with.

Reflection:

How can I show the love of God better to people in my life?

Who in my life needs God's love the most?

Action Step:

Go out of your way today for someone who needs a touch from God. Make them feel loved.

Prayer:

Lord, let me love how You love. Give me the strength and ability to see people the way you do. Let Your love be felt in every interaction I have today.

Bible Verses: 

“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 NIV