This is how much we are loved...The choice is ours...
And so where do you stand this day? What is your choice? Will you choose to be pro love?
The greatest response we can have to the One who is pro us is to become as He is...love. Yes, the greatest way to give thanks to the One who is love is to become His laborer of love. And how do we become His laborers of love? Prayer… Prayer is how we enter into the Spirit so as to become the love of Christ for the sake of the world. Prayer is how the passion of Christ becomes our passion. We are, in fact, only free as we allow ourselves to be loved by the overflowing fountain of Savior love. Our freedom is not in ourselves but in Christ. After all, we are not dead stones but living ones.
The passion Jesus had for us is life changing so much so that it is not merely about how much Jesus suffered for us, but how much He loves us. Love transforms suffering into sacrifice. His self-offering is the elevation of self because it is the transformation of self-love into Savior love, which erupts in our love for the other. For "Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God" (Ephesians 5:2). This is love: the total gift of self...
When we go to Jesus through the Holy Spirit and commune with Him daily so as to build everything on the One who is love. Only when He becomes our choice can we become His foundation of love here and now. Only when we embrace His choice of pro love can we become the pro love this world needs.
Let us this day bend our knee so as to seek to become His living stones of love. Let us this day engulf our moments in love so as to become the rock of hope this world desperately needs. Let us this day be Jesus to the world.
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