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| “…so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.” |
| —1 Peter 1:22a |
Our “surface society” takes very little in this life seriously, nor pursues anything deeply, except possibly people’s search for self-aggrandizing pleasure and its insatiable drive to divide us into warring tribes. But, true peace, comfort, and enjoyment in this life springs forth from the rich love that God places deep within our hearts.
God unites us a humans, whom He created to glorify Him and to have fellowship with Him. God wants us to celebrate the diversity of our differences within a climate of acceptance and unity, always recognizing that we have far more in common to unite us than we have in differences that divide us.
This love that permeates the totality of God, and His gift of love to us, has a nature that is high and wide and long and, yes, deep. It covers over a multitude of tough edges and tribal differences. It strengthens and sustains everyone who falls under its influence.
The Apostle Peter understood the great power of God-breathed love when he wrote these words in 1 Peter 1:22-23:
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
Let us continue this day to allow God-breathed love to flow into us, to flow through us, and to flow out of us that we may touch the lives around us. Let us allow God’s love within us to focus on the unity that comes from recognizing every human is created by God for a purpose. And, let us especially continue to love deeply our brothers and sisters in Christ.
Based on a blog originally posted on Tuesday, August 25, 2015
