This is a new season. We can sense it and we can feel it. It's tingly and even prickly in the air. Things are changing and God is doing something new. (Isaiah 43:19) Honestly this has been said all year long. It seems to be in every devotion, blog and podcast. Hope sprang up in me as I anticipated new perspectives, adventures and new relationships and even love. Then came life. And the wait.
Ironically, I found it more difficult to stay the course with these promises pending than when I was going along, day to day - business as usual. I was as the verse says, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick." Has that ever happened to you? Is it happening now? Well, more than anything today God wants us to be encouraged. He IS doing a new thing and it's better than we can imagine! He is not only bringing love into our lives but expanding our capacity to love.
We are called to love. Not just our immediate families and the Brethren but also the alien, orphan, and the widow. And not just in the literally sense. The Lord is expanding our capacity (sensitivity and ability and availability) to care for the alienated, rejected and them without. I often feel like I'm at the top at that list, but that's for another blog!
Anyway, endeavor to love. It will be met with opposition, but all worthwhile pursuits are. We will succeed!
And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone, just as we also do for you. (1 Thes. 3:12)
#kindness #godliness #love #godislove #hope
