To love my neighbor is an expression of my love for God. This keeps my love for God from being abstract or sentimental. We like to receive God’s love, not always knowing that it calls for a commitment from us. We receive God’s love so that we might give it away. His love is to open our heart toward Him and others. When we truly see the cross and what His love is toward us, it calls us to give it away. By this we know we are in Him.
Father, I desire to live out righteousness as compassionate mercy in the same way you have been merciful to me. I want to forgive as I have been forgiven and love as I have been loved. Enable me by your Spirit to live out this righteousness of the Kingdom of God in my sphere of influence. In the name of Jesus who showed us how, Amen!
From, “Staying on the Way”, by H. Lamar Smith
