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Tutored In The Basics Of Love

Thursday October 1, 2020

As we get to know the Lord Jesus our self-centered attitude begins to change and with care and compassion we become more aware of what is happening in the lives of others.  We respond to others with kindness even when they are unkind to us because we are familiar with the place they are at. 

I will bless the Lord who counsels me; he gives me wisdom in the night. He tells me what to do. (Psalm 16:7 TLB)

All of us have had to humble ourselves before God as we learned the error of our ways. We have had to admit that our standards for right living were not God’s standards and were influenced by our old nature.  To follow God’s ways, we needed to change our way of thinking and doing and responding to God and others. We needed to allow our new nature, tutored in the basics of love, to guide and direct us in all our ways.

This plan of mine is not what you would work out, neither are my thoughts the same as yours! For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours, and my thoughts than yours. (
Isaiah 55:8-9 TLB)

Kindness towards others requires us to be generous with our forgiveness of all insults or injury.  We refuse to hold on to bitterness or act in vindictive ways towards those who have harmed us.  God has forgiven us because Jesus paid the penalty for our sin with His life and therefore we, with thankful hearts, now live willing to forgive others. 


But I say: Love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way you will be acting as true sons of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust too. (Matthew 5:44-45 TLB)

In our new life with God in recovery, we can be kind to others because Jesus is perfecting His enduring love in us.




Prayer: Heavenly Father, Thank You for teaching me the basics of love. Help me to love and forgive others as You continue to love and forgive me.  Amen


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