PSALM 31:23 (CEV)
All who belong to the LORD,
show how you love him.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:13 (NCB)
Thus there are three things that endure: faith, hope, and love,
and the greatest of these is love.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Make love your focus because love is the greatest of all that endures.
PRAYER
Patient God, you continue to love us even though we are so often disappointing to you. If you were not so loving you'd flush us all away. Yet, instead of gazing at all our failures, you look at the successes of Christ -- the one who draws us into a relationship with you. Thank you for this kind of love. Forgive our mediocre responses to something which changes everything. Pull me in closer to yourself so that your love rubs off on me and moves through me. Amen.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your Name, your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.