Welcome to today’s devotional
Love: What It Is or What It Is Not
- 1 Corinthians 13:3
Love never fails, and nothing else really succeeds. The love of God’s message is always very clear. He has life, and that life is the light of the world. That light shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot understand it. Either we rule, or we are ruled. Either we are the head or the tail. There is nothing between the head and the tail. Either we are inside or outside. With God there are no shadows, but only light. Love from God is also evident. Either love is pure in its motives, or it is not love at all. Either love gives for its own sake, or it is not love, but “primitive love”.
Do you judge a person’s spirituality based on the pattern in which he gives his life as a sacrifice for Christ? There are thousands of people who are familiar with his death, but do not live to establish his identity in his life. What is the meaning of being familiar with his death but not establishing the familiarity of love? It means I give everything I have or “give all my possessions to feed the poor” and never succeed in my calling to live in love. It must be love from God. For some people it is not so difficult to sacrifice oneself in death, but for the same people it is difficult to love in life. We can either reveal Christ, or surrender without Him. Devotion is not always spirituality, but spirituality will always receive God’s promise, not just devotion to what it does in general, but with the heart that beats in life through Him.
Today’s reading passage: Hebrews 8-10