Contemplative Bible Reading

1 Thessalonians 3:12 (New Living Translation)

12 And may the Lord make your love for one another and for all people grow and overflow, just as our love for you overflows.

The writer to this church is sending a written prayer. The writer prays that everyone in this distant church loves one another more each day. Two things here I can do everyday:

1. Pray that each person I meet loves others more each day.
2. Love everyone I meet more each day.

As I consider these two things, there is no thing and no person with the power to stop me from doing either of these. It is up to me alone. Gosh. No excuses. Don’t ya’ just hate it when you don’t have any available excuses?

Don’t ya’ just love it when you discover that God asks us to do things that we can all do? God isn’t asking me to literally move a mountain or part an ocean. God only asks that I love others and pray that others love others. And when I fail, God tells me, “Try again tomorrow. I am still here for you.”

Thanks be to God for grace, mercy, and unending love.