The Love of GodSample

Day 5 Devotional:

Loving Others Like God Loves Us

Every time we demonstrate the love of God to others, we leave a mark of God’s mercy and grace on their lives. When we give to orphans and widows, or to those who are less fortunate than ourselves, whenever we do someone a favour without expecting anything back in return, we mark them with the love of God.

Every time we do something like that, something from which we stand to gain nothing, something that is sacrificial and self-giving, we are affirming this definition of God’s love, we are being motivated by God’s display of His love for us through the gospel of Jesus Christ, and in the power of the Holy Spirit, we are clearly demonstrating the love of God to others in our broken and love-less world.

We will all do well to adopt as our own this prayer of Apostle Paul found in Ephesians 3:17-19:

And I pray that your roots may go down deep into the soil of God’s marvellous love; so that you will be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high his love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves.

We need to make this our own prayer, because considering how flawed and wanting our own feeble human love is, considering this definition of God’s love, and how He has displayed and demonstrated it to us in the gospel, I’m sure you’ll agree with me that you and I are never more like God than when we love others as He has loved us.