Make the decision to Love One Another

Finishing up our devotional yesterday and considering the devotional I did as part of my From 2005 to Eternity posts, it felt like using it (THRIVE: We need to love one another!) as our source for today’s devotional to be a perfect topic for this day and this time. To be the dads God created and purposed for us to be, we need to love our wives and love our kids! So today, we are going to jump into this subject and reflect upon how we can love one another better!

Scripture from Today’s Devotional:

God’s Word never returns void and knows exactly what we need to hear! God’s Word can cut through the noise and distractions just like a double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. God’s Word is active and alive and so we need to start there no matter what!

Let’s be the dads who unselfishly love and seek the best for our wives! Let’s be the dads who unselfishly love and seek the best for our kids! Let’s be the dads who love our wives and kids because it is a natural overflowing of love we have received from a personal relationship with God! Let’s be the dads who love our wives because Jesus loves us! Let’s be the dads who love our kids because Jesus loves us! Let’s be the dads who love and have unselfish concerns for our wives and kids! Let’s be the dads who have fervent and unfailing love for our wives and kids because we know that love covers a multitude of sins and it overlooks unkindness and unselfishly by seeking the best for others! Let’s be the dads who love, serve and seek the best for our wives and kids because we know that we were called to freedom and so we aren’t to let our freedom become an opportunity for the sinful nature, worldliness, and selfishness to take control! Let’s be the dads who are kind and helpful to our wives and kids! Let’s be the dads who are tender-hearted, compassionate, and understanding to our wives and kids! Let’s be the dads who are readily and freely forgiving to our wives and kids! Let’s be the dads who forgive freely because God forgave us through Jesus! Let’s be the dads who love and unselfishly seek the best for our wives and kids just as Jesus did for us!

Today’s devotional has been provided to us by Phil who was called back in 2005 to start blogging and sharing his morning devotional time by God until eternity calls him home.

Reading through today’s devotional, here are some takeaways for me: (check out the devotional on your own too to see if you pick up other nuggets, and please share your findings in the comments)

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Takeaways from Today’s Devotional:
“THRIVE: We need to love one another!“

• Let’s be the dads who “demonstrate our love for God by loving our” wives and kids!
• Let’s be the dads “who are known for and identified by love“!
• Let’s be the dads “who have a single and sole identifying factor which is love” demonstrated to our wives and kids!
• Let’s be the dads “who are known by love, nothing else because we are followers of Jesus and believers in God” and so demonstrate it to our wives and kids!
• Let’s be the dads who model to our wives and our kids God’s love by loving one another!
• Let’s be the dads who love our wives and kids to the point when people see us they see us being “together and having all things in common“!
• Let’s be the dads who love our wives and kids as Jesus loves!
• Let’s be the dads who love our wives and kids “unconditionally“!
• Let’s be the dads who love our wives and kids “sacrificially“!
• Let’s be the dads who love our wives and kids “forgivingly“!
• Let’s be the dads who love our wives and kids “eternally“!
• Let’s be the dads who invite and align our lives with the instructions and directions of the Holy Spirit!
• Let’s be the dads who allow the Holy Spirit to work in and through us into the lives of our wives and kids to “guide us into all the truth that is the full and complete truth“!
• Let’s be the dads who allow the Holy Spirit to work in and through us into the lives of our wives and kids to “confirm our relationship with God“!
• Let’s be the dads who allow the Holy Spirit to work in and through us into the lives of our wives and kids to “be overcomers“!
• Let’s be the dads who allow the Holy Spirit to work in and through us into the lives of our wives and kids to “share the good news of Jesus boldly with the world around us“!
• Let’s be the dads who allow the Holy Spirit to work in and through us into the lives of our wives and kids to “remember and walk in His teaching“!
• Let’s be the dads who allow the Holy Spirit to work in and through us into the lives of our wives and kids to “be set apart and made holy through Him“!
• Let’s be the dads who allow the Holy Spirit to work in and through us into the lives of our wives and kids to show how “He can intercede for us when we don’t know what to do or say“!
• Let’s be the dads who allow the Holy Spirit to work in and through us into the lives of our wives and kids to show how He ““reveals God’s truth to us“, “convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment“, “fills believers with boldness so they can preach the salvation message“, “prays for us when we don’t know what to pray“, “implants fruit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control) into our lives and then grows it into a harvest.“, “gives spiritual gifts (wisdom, knowledge, faith, and others) for the church’s edification“, and “give glorify Jesus and reveal his kingdom to the world until his return“”!
• Let’s be the dads who allow the Holy Spirit to work in and through us into the lives of our wives and kids to choose to live our lives in ways that help us to become more like love as defined by 1 Corinthians 13 and be able to insert our names there:
  • “[Your name] endures with patience and serenity, [Your name] is kind and thoughtful, and is not jealous or envious; [Your name] does not brag and is not proud or arrogant. [Your name] is not rude; [Your name] is not self-seeking, [Your name] is not provoked [nor overly sensitive and easily angered]; [Your name] does not take into account a wrong endured. [Your name] does not rejoice at injustice, but rejoices with the truth [when right and truth prevail]. [Your name] bears all things [regardless of what comes], believes all things [looking for the best in each one], hopes all things [remaining steadfast during difficult times], endures all things [without weakening]. [Your name] never fails [it never fades nor ends].“