"Love is not a feeling. It is an overmastering passion to help and bless and deliver and comfort and strengthen and give joy to others just as the Lord Jesus always did. Here on earth we have the opportunity to do what the God of love does all the time, and to learn to abandon ourselves to loving, to giving, to seeking, and to saving others. Not a lovely feeling of affection, or physical pleasure and satisfaction, but the extreme eternal ecstasy of creating happiness and good and blessed things for others to enjoy....It is an attitude of will. I will cast myself down in giving. The lower I go the more love I am able to transmit from God to others, just like the Lord of love himself, who was not content until he found and took the lowest place in the universe."
Oh, LORD, may we love the way you love! Help us to have the same kind of passion that you have, to have an attitude of will, and to abandon our agendas for the sake of others. Forgive us for when we fall short of loving You. You are so gracious and good and worthy. Thank you for being everything that we are not capable of. Amen.
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