Let Love for your fellow believers continue and be a fixed practice with you [never let it fail].
Love of other believers is a natural outflow of the Christian life and should be a normal part of fellowship within the church. After you were first saved it may have been very natural and exciting to love other Christians and desire to be around them. However, such an attitude is difficult to maintain. This love, which is a gift from God's Spirit, must be nurtured otherwise it will not grow.
In the scripture for today, we are admonished to continue loving our fellow believers and let it be a fixed practice with us. Paul teaches us the same concept of nurturing and practicing love for one another when he writes: “Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more...” [1Th 4:9-10, NIV].
Brotherly love is caring for fellow Christians more than we care for ourselves. This kind of love already exists. Our challenge today and each day is not to discover love for one another, but to allow it to continue and to increase.
Prayer: My Loving Father, You are love, and we, who are created in Your image, have the ability to love. I pray, Father, that I will continue to have brotherly love for my fellow believers. (If there is any Christian friend you have whom your brotherly love towards has turned cold or sour, pray that God will help you rekindle this love). I pray that I do not neglect or take for granted the believers you have put around me. In Jesus Name, Amen.
One-Year Daily Bible Reading Plan - Oct. 08 2010 - Zephaniah 1-3 (OT), 1 John 1 (NT).
Joyful 'Toon For Today
God's Love and Mine…
