Not everyone in this world is quite as easily lovable,
(or as eager to help!!) as tots,
but we are commanded to owe no one anything
but to love them. (Rom.13:8)
By the grace and love of God, who sees us as we are
and loves us completely, we are able to love one another,
for we are all partly lovable and unlovable
Wishing you a Happy Last Weekend of June overcome with love!!
This deliciously, rain-soft morning affords me some much needed indoor-chore time!!
Rom.12:9-10, 21
Love must be sincere.
Detest what is evil;
cling to what is good.
Outdo yourselves in honoring one another…
Do not be overcome by evil,
but overcome evil with good
Let love BE more than idle words that brush the ear with sound
Let love BE honour undeterred (for this is holy ground)
Let love BE willing to become a living sacrifice
And never count the paltry sum that constitutes the price
Let love BE faith’s unyielding walk, unaltered by the view
Let love BE anchored in the Rock that is Faithful and True
Let love hold nothing nearer than the cross that Jesus bore
Content to count Christ dearer, and in that, want nothing more
Let love put on the armour that equips us to fight well
Against a cunning charmer bent and bound for death and hell
Let love seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness
Let love BE wholly, holy shod with sacrificial ‘yes’
And not rebel beneath the rod that disciplines The Child
Let love BE daily humbly awed by God’s law, undefiled
Let love BE glad in every day that love’s author has lent
Let love BE ready to obey Him without argument
Let love BE patient, kind, befitted for its altar call
With heart, soul, strength and mind, committed to Christ above all
Who (He) satisfies the purpose in the high calling of love
Who (He) bestows sorrow’s solace that this world knows nothing of
Let love secure endurance, where often its foes contend
Let love’s pure perseverance keep us faithful to end
Let love BE more than pleasure that sacrifice holds aloof
Let love BE the full measure of devotion’s utter proof
© Janet Martin
1 John 2: 15-17
Do not love the world or anything in the world.
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
the desires of the flesh,
the desires of the eyes,
and the pride of life—
is not from the Father but from the world.
but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
1 John 3:11
This is the message you have heard from the beginning:
We should love one another.
John 16:33
“I have told you these things,
so that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
A poem from my devotion this morning…
