TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL PASSAGE
Please read Ephesians 4:32; Galatians 3:28
30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Mark 12:30-31
DEVOTIONAL
by Elder Chris Beltran
God’s love is unconditional, perfect, and unlimited that even while we are sinners and rebels, He still loves us to the point when He sends His Son to die on the cross for us. That is the highest form of love. We can only love others as ourselves when we have a deep and intimate relationship with Him. Like when we spend time with Him and when we put everything that we have read and meditate on His word, everything that we have received, we are to put it into practice.
Forgive as the Lord forgave us (Read Ephesians 4:32). God forgave us unconditionally. How can we not forgive if we have truly experienced His forgiveness? Love keeps no record of wrongs as it leaves the hurts, bitterness, the wrongdoings of others at the cross and lets them go.
Accept others as you want to be accepted. Loving others as ourselves means we are to accept them the way God has accepted us. We are able to empathize with them. All people have equal worth. If the Lord has accepted us for what we are, then we are to accept others as we want to be accepted.
PRAYER
Heavenly Father, we stand in awe of Your unconditional and perfect love, demonstrated through the sacrifice of Your Son for our sins. Help us to cultivate a deep and intimate relationship with You so that we can love others as ourselves. Grant us the strength to forgive as You have forgiven us and to accept others with the same grace and love You have shown us. May our lives be a reflection of Your boundless love and acceptance. In Jesus’ name, we pray, amen.
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