Love | Detest | Cling (Daily Devotional)

Hello and welcome back to Living Supernaturally. We hope you are having a good day and today, we are going to be mediating on God’s word, learning something and applying that in our lives. We are going to take sometime to look at Romans chapter 12, verse 9 onwards, where Paul writes certain simple instructions to the believers of the Lord Jesus. He writes some simple, basic instructions which we can consider to be the ‘to-do’ list of the Christian. Here is something for your ‘to-do’ list today. Let’s look at Romans chapter 12, verse 9, it reads like this, ‘Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.’ Today’s ‘to-do’ list is this, let your love be without hypocrisy, abhor what is evil and cling to what is good. Let’s look at the first part, let love be without hypocrisy. This statement just means that there can be love with hypocrisy, there can be insincere expression of love, there can be a love that is expressed with pretense. So, Paul is writing and saying, let your expression/ act/ work of love, let it be without pretense, let it be without insincerity or in other words, let it be without hypocrisy. We know that God kind of love is an unconditional, in spite of love. If we would emulate that in our lives, if we would express that in our lives, that would be the ideal thing because the earthly love is a conditional love, it is based on our performance and something we can bring or give into a person’s life, it is because of love. God is calling us to follow Him and receive His love which is agape, which is unconditional love. In fact, Romans chapter 5, says the love of God has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit. We have become recipients of the agape/ the love of God by the power of the Holy Spirit. We are called to express that without hypocrisy. A way by which we can be expressing insincere love is when our love is not matched or words of expression of love is not backed up with work or action. 1 John chapter 3, verse 18 says, ‘My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.’ He is exhorting the believer to not love just in word or tongue, let it just not be mere words that you speak and say, yes, that you care for and love someone but let it be backed up with action, that is sincere love and the love without pretense, let it be backed up in deed and truth. The second thing that we see here is to abhor what is evil, which means to detest and depart. The third thing that we see here is we are called to cling on to what is good, to hold tightly to what is good, to have a firm grip on things that are good so that we can actually be imitators of Christ. Let’s pray today for these three things to be in our lives. Let this be our ‘to do’ list. Father, we thank you for this exhortation for our love to be without hypocrisy, that we would cling to what is good and that we would abhor evil, that we would detest and depart from evil. We pray that this will be part of our doing today, that we will remember even as we go through this day, that it will be part of today. We give you all the praise and glory, in Jesus’s name we pray, Amen.

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