Faithfully Yours Forever

Run after the hurting, go after the broken, the addicted, those that have messed up, that society has written off. Go after them with love, with mercy, with the goodness of God. – Joel Osteen

Father, as we move through our day help us to extend love to those we encounter who try our patience and make it hard to love them; the clerk at the store who is slowly checking out the person ahead of us, the person who just took our chosen parking space, the co-worker who claims credit for our accomplishment, the teen who rudely speaks back in defiance of our instructions, the person who is keeping us from getting on to things we want to do by telling us all about their health issues. Lord we know you love them too. Help us to see them and love them as you do.  Amen.

James 2:8 (NASB)

If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself, You are doing right.”

Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. – G. K Chesterton

Father, we cannot begin to imagine the depth of your love for us. Help us to grasp what it means to love others with that same depth. Amen.