January 8th
Read: Matthew 19:26; 1 Corinthians 3:17; Eccl. 2:11; Phil. 4:6-9: 1 Peter 1:3-4 and Romans 8:35-39
Love is the milieu in which achievement, creativity, and courage thrive. Without it goals are vain and victories hollow. Jesus the Christ is the personification of love. Without Him life is flavorless and powerless. His love in the human heart creates an atmosphere of hope and encouragement, of security and strength, of liberty and peace, which, in turn, breeds creative ideas and valorous deeds. Visions distill into tangible action and dreams become reality. Nothing threatens their outworking except the limitations set by oneself, for “With God all things are possible.”(Luke 1:37)
LOVE
Love devours the meanest thought,
Overpow’rs the wayward tongue.
Love brings obstacles to naught
And sings throughout the battle fought.
Love will choose to see the good,
Ne’er accuse when heart is wrung.
Love will strive when it’s withstood
And survive the tempest’s flood.
Though sight and sound may be denied,
Though time’s resounding bells have rung,
Though distance sever, woes betide,
Love will ever true abide.
Prayer: Dear God of love, thank You for the evidences of Your love in my life. Thank You for Jesus my Lord and Savior, who loved me so much that He died for me on the cross. Thank You for Your Holy Spirit who keeps showing me more and more of Your love and opens me so that it can pour through me into the lives of others.