MONDAY JANUARY 20
“Grace
and peace be yours…through the knowledge of…Jesus our Lord.” 2 Pe 1:2 NIV
THINKING
AND ACTING LIKE JESUS (2)
If you think God’s love for you would be stronger if
your faith was stronger, you are wrong. If you think His love would be deeper
if your thoughts and actions were better, you are wrong again. Don’t confuse God’s
love with people’s love. Their love increases with performance and decreases
with mistakes. Not so with God’s love. He loves you just the way you are, but
He refuses to leave you that way. Max Lucado writes: “When my daughter, Jenna,
was a toddler, I used to take her to the park…One day as she was playing in a
sandbox, an ice-cream salesman approached us. I purchased her a treat, and when
I turned to give it to her, I saw her mouth was full of sand…Did I love her
with dirt in her mouth? Absolutely. Was she any less my daughter with dirt in her
mouth? No way. I carried her over to the water fountain and washed out her
mouth. Why? Because I love her. God does the same for us. He holds us over the
fountain. ‘Spit out the dirt, honey,’ our Father urges. ‘I’ve got something
better for you.’ And so HE cleanses us from filth: immorality, dishonesty,
prejudice, bitterness, greed. We don’t enjoy the cleansing; sometimes we even
opt for the dirt over the ice cream. ‘I can eat dirt if I want to!’…Which is
true—we can. But if we do, the loss is ours. God has a better offer. He wants
us to be just like Jesus.”
Taken
from The Word for You Today Devotional
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