Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God’s law. – (Romans 13:10, NLT)
You can’t go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love. – (Romans 13:10, MSG)
Does love hurt anyone? Absolutely not. In fact, love achieves everything the law requires. – (Romans 13:10, VOICE)
When we choose to walk in love, we are opting for obedience to all that God asks of us. If we love God and love people, we are fulfilling all that the law requires. Just as God perfectly loves each of us, He equips and empowers us to go and do likewise to all whom we encounter. It is up to us to choose to share what He has granted, so that those around us might come to see and know the goodness and grace that is given through the Lord’s love. The love that God gives is patient and kind, it is not jealous or boastful, proud, rude or selfish. Love delights in the truth and does not remember wrongs. Love never gives up on people, as it never stops trusting, never loses hope, and never quits. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7) May we each go forth and love as we are loved by God, so that in doing so, we walk in obedience to all that the Lord requires.
Love does not choose hurt,
No matter what comes;
Instead it endures,
Like the rising sun.
All that is required,
Through the law of God;
Is truly fulfilled,
Despite all our flaws.
For God’s very heart,
Is clearly made known;
When we opt to love,
Just as we’ve been shown.
So let us go forth,
And love each other;
With goodness and grace,
One to another.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You that when we choose to love as we are loved by You, we fulfill the requirements of all laws. Thank You that this is not something that we are expected to do on our own, but rather You equip and empower us to love by Your Spirit within us. Forgive us for the times that we neglect to love as we are called to do, and teach us to trust so that we might love like You. Show us how to love as we are loved, so that many might come to know the fullness of Your grace and the blessings of Your unending love. May many choose to follow You, all the days of their lives. Be glorified O God, as we choose to love others as we are loved by You. Amen.
© Shannon Elizabeth Moreno and Revelations in Writing, May 2011 – present
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. – Job 8:21
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