who are these people that i live with, these girls i call my "sisters"? what connection do i have with them? and because the Lord asks me to love, do i do what he commands? yet in the face of this world, what have they to benefit me? am i not self sufficient? am i not merely a partner while we work to labor?
and in the end, Jesus tells me, "No." For i am to "do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than [myself]."
for in the truest aspect of my heart, i don't love my sisters to the depths of which they deserve to be love. i love in convenience, i love sparingly, and i like love when it doesn't require much moving.
we claim we love the sheep. i know i do. i love the lambs that GOD has given me and praise HIS name daily for them. but a challenge we were given in Bible study this past week was...
"Do we forget to love the fellow shepherds?"
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"No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is MADE COMPLETE IN US." (1 John 4:13)
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