TRUE LOVE!
John 15:13 – Devotional
John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down his life for his friends.”
One of my all time favorite teachers and speakers is Dr. Howard Hendricks who taught at Dallas Theological Seminary. He shared that early in his life he spent much of time and effort trying to change his wife, his children, and his students. The harder he tried the less change he saw. (Isn’t that strange?!)
It suddenly dawned on him that he was going about it all wrong. He came to realize that he needed to change his wife’s husband, his children’s father, and his student’s professor. It reminds me of that old song, “It’s me, it’s me, it’s me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer.”
He began to pray for the Lord to make him a better husband, father and teacher. His wife changed, his children changed, and his students changed! What had happened? He had stopped preaching and had started living his faith.
It may be easy for us to intellectually agree with this concept, so why is it so hard to put it into practice? It is simply that we live by the flesh and not by the Spirit. We all too easily fall into the sinful habit of doing things ourselves rather than asking the Lord to direct our actions. We ask the Lord and allow Him to show us what to do—then how and when to do it.
Blessings dear heart! Walk with God today and be a blessing!
– – – Pastor Cecil
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