daily prayer

Good morning! How are we faithing? Lots of info and lots of thinking as of late. We have relationships in life that include people that we battle with. Some are fights,some are disagreements and some are simple misunderstandings. What to do, what to do. What does the Word tell us? Oh man, there is tons of wisdom on how to handle situations but lets break it down to the most important. Love one another. That's right, love one another. Simple yet the most difficult to do. There are people at church I just don't get. There are people at work that make me shake my head. There are people I meet that need a good slapping but you know what? All those groups at some point look at me the same way. I want people to love me. Not that unhealthy delusional type of utopian ideal but simply love me for who I am with all my faults. Sure I want to rid myself of those faults but until I do, truth is that lots of those faults probably wont ever go away, I want to be loved anyways. Since this is what I desire, is it reasonable for me to return the same attitude? "Oh man!" we say,"but you don't know what they've done!". True, I don't but God does and God loves them as much as he loves you and me therefore we need to love them anyways and leave the fixing to Jesus. Heck, I don't want that fixing job anyway because I have enough to do just keeping myself true to Gods Word. It is time we start living this love and stop talking about it. Platitudes are fine but they don't help someone who is at the end of their rope. Only true love like Jesus showed will help that person cut the line before they start swinging.

John 13:34-35
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
NAS

1 John 3:18
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
NIV

1 Peter 2:16-17
Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God. Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
NIV

1 Cor 16:14
Do everything in love.
NIV


Rom 12:9-10
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.
NIV

Everything in love. Pretty simple to understand,pretty hard to do sometimes. Seek the Lords grace and face in all you do because without him you could not accomplish what you do every day. Without Jesus your skills and smarts wouldn't even exist. Curb that ego because that leads to pride and looking down on people and that my friends is not brotherly love.

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Heavenly Father,
Thank you for being an example for us to follow. Help us truly love like we should. Bring to mind when ego, hatred or anything clouds our minds from doing your will. Lord forgive us where we drop the ball and help us pick it back up knowing you have our back. Lord we love and praise your holy name and hold your Word dear to our hearts, and in Jesus' name we pray, amen