January 25: Love Never Fails, Even When We Do

Affirmation: I choose to appreciate who I am. I let go of what other people think.

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Ponder, Personalize and Practice:

Continue to remind yourself of this verse as you go through your day. Practice the wisdom described here as from God. Ask yourself, “Is my thinking (wisdom) pure, peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy & good fruit, sincere and impartial?”  Does the guidance you are hearing from others fit this description?

”But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere.“

‭‭James‬ ‭3‬:‭17‬ ‭NLT‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/116/jas.3.17.NLT

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Catching Whimsy by Bob Goff

                       Jan 25

Love Nebver Fails, Even When We Do
Jesus answered, “the work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent. “

John 6:29
Sweet Maria Goff and I have a daughter named Lindsay. She didn’t arrive by stork, which was a little disappointing to me and way more painful for sweet Maria. When we held her, we immediately loved her, even though she had arrived only a moment before. years later, she would put a large and expensive dent in my car, but I loved that girl on the other side of that failure just as much as I loved her the day I met her. And that’s how God feels about you and me. He delights in us. He doesn’t care what we have done, currently are doing, or might do in the future. He just wants our hearts.

In John 6:28–29, Jesus‘s disciples were asking a practical question: “What do I do so that You will love me more?“ And Jesus told them “Your job is to believe in the one God sent.” In other words, Jesus‘s big idea is that our one and only job is to keep our eyes fixed on Him. He is not an umpire, calling balls and strikes on us and all the things we do. He is more of a base coach, seeing where we are and where we could be and continuing each day to lead us toward Him.
His goal is not that we would be more successful; He wants us to be more His. This is how real love works. Love finds people and sees the beauty in them that they sometimes don’t see themselves because they put a big dent in something. I want my love to be released in that same way.

My love for Lindsay isn’t that over -under one ethat what she has done right or what she’s done wrong. I just love her. And that’s how God loves you.

Delight in God‘s love today. See things and people that they don’t see in themselves.