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Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5)
1 John 3:18-24 The MessageWhen We Practice Real Love18-20 My dear children, let’s not just talk about love; let’s practice real love. This is the only way we’ll know we’re living truly, living in God’s reality. It’s also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves. 21-24 And friends, once that’s taken care of, and we’re no longer accusing or condemning ourselves, we’re bold and free before God! We’re able to stretch our hands out and receive what we asked for because we’re doing what he said, doing what pleases him. Again, this is God’s command: to believe in his personally named Son, Jesus Christ. He told us to love each other, in line with the original command. As we keep his commands, we live deeply and surely in him, and he lives in us. And this is how we experience his deep and abiding presence in us: by the Spirit he gave us. For ReflectionThe mystery of divine love is the animating force of the Gospel. Our actions should testify to our profession of faith. Our kindness and compassion demonstrate real operant love. It is not enough to love those who are easy to love. But loving ones who are difficult to love is witness to the divine love of God for all of humankind.
We hear "God is Love" so often that we become weary of hearing the same thing over and over and the meaning is lost in its repetition. This most important commandment is also the most difficult to practice. We often find it difficult to love and weakened our resolve to love the "unloveable." Yet, if this one thing, divine love, is attained it is enough! PrayPray and let the Holy Spirit guide your life. Pray and meditate on the meaning and scope of divine love. Pray and let the Holy Spirit heal your feelings of self-doubt. Pray and share the grace of divine love by loving divinely.
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