Welcome to today’s devotion.
Individualized
- Romans 5:5
The more perfect love is, the more it risks being hurt. Love is not an abstract metal. Love is an impersonal behavior or physical act. Love is a powerful force. Love is personal communication, personal relationship, personal experience, personal unity, and personal sentiment.
Love is bold, fearless, and powerful. Love is an action, and it puts everything in line. We experience the power of personal and intimate love. This is the reason that we love and serve God with zeal. This is not a doctrine or a theological teaching; But instead it is something that risks going into darkness and when it does, it goes out as a light. The Holy Spirit causes husbands to become jealously personal with their wives. Husbands, love your wives in intimacy and strength. David’s love for Absalom reveals a heart that is powerfully intimate. “My son, my son, Absalom. It would have been better if I had died instead of you.” (2 Samuel 18:33). What love, what risk, how personal, and gentle, and great. David had no intention of celebrating. He thought no evil, but simply became familiar with love.
A marriage can be changed, a prayer meeting or an entire congregation can be changed by the intimate power of love. This is our privilege. The Holy Spirit pours this love into our hearts. Not in our minds, but in our hearts. Our hearts are trained by God to relate, personally, and powerfully and effectively. This love transcends knowledge and embraces each of us personally.
Today’s reading passage: Hebrews 1-4