Reflect Love

 

As we end our short series on love, we end with how God wants us to live our lives, in love.  Understanding God’s love for us is a critical starting point for living a life focused on God.  This is where we began this journey.  Moving to an insight on how we action His love for us was our focus last week.  Today, we will review how we can reflect God’s love in who we are, both to others here on earth and to God!

This verse begins with “And what does the Lord require of you?”  This is where we pick up how we can portray our dedication to God.

Act Justly – God gave us the commandments and a Bible that clearly helps us to determine right from wrong.  When He asks us to act justly, that is what He is requiring of us.  Our actions should be clear to those around us and to God, that we fully understand the difference between right and wrong and live our lives in a way that portrays that.  Is it always easy? No!  Are we sinners?  Yes!  Yet, our goal should always be to act justly.

Love Mercy – This is close to what we discussed last week, showing people love!  This consists not only of what we do to others but also what we don’t do to others.  Quick to negatively respond, outbursts, comment without understanding – all of those scenarios and many more can lead to not showing people love.  To love with mercy in our hearts and to share that love with others will always be God’s way.  Look how He loves us!

Walk Humbly – Walking with an assurance that everything we have and all that we are is from God helps us to walk humbly.  Again, not an easy task, but one that we all should continue to strive towards.  We are nothing without our Lord.  It is our responsibility to ensure we give praise and thanksgiving “in all circumstances”.  Often, those around us have difficulty with our praise to God, especially during challenging times.  It is this love for God that helps us to walk humbly, knowing we are nothing without our Savior.

Friends, our walk in love starts with the wonderful example of how God loves us.  He shows us, He teaches us, He tells us and He walks beside us to help us on this journey.  It’s hard, but our goal of living our Jesus’ love to others around us with a sense of right/wrong, with mercy and with humility will help us to love as God loves us.  I know I fail at walking on this journey time and time again.  I also know that God is waiting for me, knowing I will fall, and is ready to pick me up to continue the walk in love.  May we find comfort in the simple faith that God will always be there – loving us!

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Heavenly Father, thank you for helping us to understand how to reflect the love that you so abundantly provide to us.  May you help us on this journey to share Your love with all that we meet.  Amen!