MY LIVING WATER DAILY DEVOTIONAL
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2024
IS YOUR LOVE ON TERMS AND CONDITIONS?
MAIN TEXT: 1 Peter 4:8—Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
1 John 4:16—And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
In a book called Living God’s Love, author Douglas Cooper says, “the average person is programmed from birth to love only conditionally. Consequently, we grow up feeling that we have to earn any love we get. Earn it by our good behavior, by agreeing to let someone else have their way, by giving someone what they want, or simply by just being ‘nice.’
Unconditional love says I’m going to love you even if I don’t agree with you. I may not agree with your lifestyle, your doctrine, how you’re raising your children, the friends you’re choosing, but I know this. You are made in the image of Almighty God, and I am not called to judge you, I am called to love you, and we have to realize every person is on a journey.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. God’s type of love manifest beyond the status and privileges of a man. We ought to love one another unconditionally. If we love primarily for gains, then we need to check it again.
LET YOUR LOVE WIN PRAISES TO GOD
PRAYER: Let the mind of Christ be in me to love unconditionally. Holy Spirit, teach me to love without segregations in Jesus’ name, Amen.
BY BISHOP DR NGOZI DURUEKE (HE REIGNS CHAPEL INT’L) mylivingwaterdevotional@gmail.com
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