“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.” - Romans 12:9-11 NIV
Today, we are going to look at Romans 12:9-10 and how they should be applied to our lives.
We often consider the word ‘love’ as a highest regard to someone, such as our life-time partner, fiancé/fiancée, and girlfriend/boyfriend. When we love and put our highest regard to someone, then that person becomes our highest priority. We also can use the word ‘love’ to our family members, friends and material things when we consider them as precious. I realised that I am not loving my family. Instead of loving my family, I am loving my friends. It is so hard to love my family because desires do not match and I do not fellowship with them, to be honest, except for what I need from them I think. While I was growing up, I took family’s love and care of me as a granted, even though my family kept disciplining me to love my family members first. Because of this, I think loving others more than my family members became a habit of mine. However, I also think love is a process and comes from fellowshipping each other. Hence, I need to fellowship with them, to actually love them.
Because God consider Himself as love, I believe God is the foundation of love (1 John 4:7-8). Since He showed His love toward us by sending His only beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to crucify Himself on the cross for our sins, we should love one another. The Bible states that by loving each other, we are able to show that God is living within us (1 John 4:9-12). Love became the fulfilment of the law of God according to Apostle Paul (Romans 13:8-10). Apostle Peter proclaims, “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins” (1 Peter 4:8) in the context of ‘Living for God.’ Love is what binds us together (Colossians 3:14). My mentor told me that she does not take any offense. Therefore, she told me that I do not have to apologise to her because she is able to see how I am changing through the Spirit of God. I believe this is one of illustrations of loving each other deeply.
Tomorrow, I am going to continue writing about the love of God but in the aspect of unity Ask yourself a question for today: “What kind of love do I have towards others and how do I attain godly love that honours God and others at same time?”
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