Week 6
Day 1
Love: Remain Current
Love does not store up the memory of
wrong it has received. The word translated store up is an
accountant’s word. It is the word used
for entering an item into a ledger so that it will not be forgotten. That is precisely what so many people
do. One of the great arts in life is to
learn what to not hold onto. A writer
tells how, in Polynesia, where the natives spend much of their time in fighting
and feasting, it is customary for each man to keep some reminders of his
hatred. Articles are suspended from the
roofs of their huts to keep alive the memory of their wrongs – real or
imaginary. In the same way many people
nurse their wrath to keep it warm: they brood over their wrongs until it is
impossible to forget them. Christian
love has learned the great lesson of not ledgering, or not hanging out for
reminder, the wrong one has endured.
How about
you? As we attempt to live out the
different characteristics of love, it becomes evident to me it will take more
than “me” to make them a reality in my life.
I Corinthians 5:17 states, Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things are passed away,
behold new things have come (NASB). We are not being asked to live out the
impossible. God has given us the Holy
Spirit to empower us to love as Jesus loved.
20 I
have been crucified with Christ and
I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The
life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20
Questions for Reflection
What accounts
are you keeping that you need to stop tallying?
With whom? About what?
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Reflect on
Galatians 2:20 from the devotional. How
does the truth of this verse empower us to remain current rather than keep an
account of wrongs suffered?
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Prayer: Reflecting specifically on this
devotional, write out a prayer to God.
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