What Is My Purpose? Learning to Love God and Love Othersნიმუში

Two Commands
Focus
Today, we will consider our greatest purpose — to love God and to love our neighbors. Take a few moments to pray, honestly expressing how you feel about this part of your life’s purpose in this moment.
Listen
Mother Teresa — A Gift for God
“Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, so his work through your hands, for you will be all-powerful with him to strengthen you.”
Howard Thurman — Jesus & the Disinherited
“Every man is potentially every other man’s neighbor. Neighborliness is nonspatial; it is qualitative. A man must love his neighbor directly, clearly, permitting no barriers between.”
Apply
How would your life change or be reoriented if you were to define your life’s purpose by Jesus’ two greatest commandments? How could you choose to love and be loving to both God and those around you today?
Respond
In the coming days, we will explore what it means to have a purpose centered around loving God and loving the people God has placed around us. As we close today’s devotional, we invite you to this simple prayer:
“Lord, open my heart, my soul, and my mind to love you and love and my neighbor.”
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About this Plan

Explore your purpose as a follower of Jesus: to love God and love others. Over seven days, we will unpack the themes of personal worship, transformation, compassion, service, and justice. Each session starts with a prayer to help you focus on the day’s theme, a passage or two from scripture, a thought from a theological perspective, and ways to apply and respond to the reading.
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