Finding And Living Out Your Purposeናሙና

 Our Purpose Is To Love Fellow Believers   

While it is easy to speak about love and maybe even to write about it, its hard to live by it. It is especially hard to love fellow believers of your church, or your fellowship group, or even those from other churches or groups. Our common thread is Jesus and his finished work on the cross which should unify and bind us together. Instead, we find that we are more conflicted and divided than other belief systems of the world. As disciples of Jesus, our stance and posture should be that of love and not contempt, impatience or exasperation towards other believers. The Hebrew word for this kind of love is ‘Agape’ - a divine love which is not humanly forced but divinely gifted by the Holy Spirit. Which then means, we must rely heavily on the Holy Spirit to demonstrate this form of love through us. The Body of Christ has people with different mentalities, personalities, and life experiences, which means that there is bound to be differences of opinion and conflicts. To put it plainly like the writer of Proverbs wisely says “Iron sharpens iron". This means like sandpaper that smooths rough surfaces, God many times uses his people to refine us. God also uses his people to encourage and edify each other with a word of wisdom or exhortation, which is why being part of a church is so vital for our growth as disciples of Christ and in finding direction. How important it is then, to genuinely love other Christians irrespective of our denominations or theological convictions? Because it is in this that many times our purpose is revealed. 

Prayer:

Dear Lord, I pray for wisdom, added grace and greater love for those in the Body of Christ. May I look beyond the differences and be kind, compassionate and loving to them. Help me in areas where I may lack. In Jesus’ name Amen