Today's devotion was written by Mary Davis, a woman in my church. I believe that she truly seeks to love as God loves. When we first started pastoring New Life, she reached out to me in love, and in doing so, I felt the love of God.
"For God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life." John 3:16
Persis, a member of the early church, whose name means "one who takes by storm", "labored much in the Lord". Her labor was borne out of a heart of love for her Lord.
"Labored" in the above text means to feel fatigue by working intensely, and implies pain and weariness. This love is an action love, a love that transcends all other kinds of love and expresses the kind of love God is. Coupled with emotion and will, this love is the motivating force that breaks all barriers of complacency, birthing in the Christian a laboring love for our Lord.
This beautiful love knows no bounds, and sees only as God sees - the needs of the world.
Heavenly Father, may our love be a "laboring in love" like that of Persis. Father teach us to seek love's noble properties, practicing them in and among one another. Thank you Father, amen.
Submitted by Mary Davis.
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