Day 8: Love

Reflecting the reality that God is Love in all areas of your life

God is Love. Is there any attribute of God that we celebrate more? As God’s image-bearers we have the high calling of proclaiming His love—in word and in deed—to a world in desperate need of it (1 Peter 2.9). This task—however—is impossible unless we are experiencing His love in all areas of our lives. This becomes possible as we commit ourselves to the Spirit-empowered life where we relinquish the idols of our past (and present) and seek after the “things that are above, where Christ is…” (Colossians 3.1-14). This life is the one that reflects the reality that God is Love.

• Read 2 Peter 1.5-8
• In what areas of your life is God inviting you to reflect the reality of His love?

I imagine that God genuinely wants me to reflect the reality of His love in every area of my life. I’m not truly sure why but I’m having a hard time with this particular topic but my mind is full of examples of God’s love for me. I suppose it is fitting that for a question like that one is only able to recall to mind all of the past evidences of love that God has shown them. In knowing that God wants me to reflect the reality of His love in all parts of my life, I guess I then have to admit in which areas I am not reflecting the reality of God’s love. That would most likely be my home life. I should be as forgiving towards my husband when he “messes something up,” as God is toward me for my sin. I am very bad at just treating home like the place where I can be everything but good and spiritual.

• How is God inviting you to practice the reality of His perfect love in your community?

Indeed the more I think on it, the more I believe God is really pulling me to recognize my home as a sanctuary that is just a valid and visible to Him as the sanctuary of our church. I have always justified myself as being pleasing to God as long as I wasn’t embarrassing Him in public… but how do I reflect Him in private. He still sees me there.