1 John 4:7 “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.”
Dear God,
Your love of me and the entire world is very important to me, in these challenging and busy times on the globe and time of year for many individually. I think many of us long to be Your true child in all ways, trusting You completely and resting calmly and at peace in You, as did Jesus when sleeping at the bottom of the boat, whilst the storm raged around He and the disciples on the lake of Galilee.
Your ailing child pleads for a double portion of Your love that the Holy Spirit longs to fill me with. I have not often been comfortable with receiving and showing love as some people do; so it is good to really appreciate that when I love You and have your love within me, I will naturally give to others of what I have been filled. Each person is Your precious child; as I am. It is good that in the freedom Your love gives us, we have the freedom to show it in our different individual ways.
I am thankful that so many of my friends have shown me love and are so kind toward me. They have lifted me up and fed my sometimes lonely soul. Today I again will be the recipient of a kind and loving act from another friend. Please be my strength to put away pride so that I can just receive this kindness expressed as being an outworking of the love You have placed in her heart.
I pray that I will freely express love to others, without thought of merit or favour, with never a hint of reserve, or a begrudging spirit. 1 John 4: 9, 10 ”In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might love through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins”
Amen