Daily Bible Reading:

John 15:9-17
9 "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other..

I John 3:18
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.


~Our Love for God~
Our faith in God should not be an "I do for God so God will do for me" relationship. We should not love God for what He can give us or for what we can get out of Him. Instead, we should love God for who He is now and what He has already done for us by sending Christ into the world to die for us.

Many people expect their faith in God to have some kind of payoff. They expect God to deliver whatever they want or need because they believe in Him. Expecting God to deliver what we want as a result of our faith is a selfish faith. As true believers of a positive, living God we are called to be selfless in giving, selfless in spirit, and selfless in love. A valid question to ask is "Shouldn't faith in God and faith in Christ result in 'something' for me? Shouldn't I expect a payoff from God?" Yes, we should all expect something from our faith, but this "something" is not a thing of this world. What we truly expect should be the working of God in our life…the often invisible, intangible, internal, and eternal working of God called love.



Galatians 5:14
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.


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Hope it blesses you guys!