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Million - Week Four

raemx February 05, 2025 0 0

Thank you for powerful love

 

Faster than a freight train, as immovable as a mountain, bigger than the moon but able to fit in the tiniest gaps. It’s love. The most powerful force in the universe.

SEEDS TO SOW: What local, national and international projects can we support that champion reconciliation, peace and grace?

Read Genesis 45: 1-15

Thank you for forgiving love.

None of us get through the year, through the week, through the day — without the power of love’s forgiveness — beautifully depicted here.

How do you think Joseph’s brothers felt in that moment?

Read 1 Corinthians 15: 47-50

Thank you for heavenly love

The dust of heaven meets the dust of humanity in the love that transforms us. We are more than the sum of our parts through Christ. We are gold dust!

As we begin to recognise God in ourselves do other people recognise God in us? How can Christians live our lives in such a way that people glimpse God in us?

Read Luke 6: 27-38

Thank you for openhearted love.

God’s selfless love for us is a powerful inspiration for us to imitate that love in our lives — not just when it’s convenient.

The ability to love our enemies is something we are able to do through the power of God’s love. It’s one of the strongest counter-cultural forces in the world. It takes tremendous power and grace to go on loving in the face of unfairness and rejection with no prospect of being understood.

It is the great irony of love that when we love openly, with no expectation of return, we can find ourselves blessed anyway — but not in the narrow ways we might plan, but in beautiful, surprising expansive ways.

We don’t give money away in order to get money back ourselves.

We don’t bless others with time and effort because it ‘earns us’ time and effort in return.

Love is not a transaction. It’s a gift. And when we join the gift economy of love we get back more than we give, even if we give it our all. 

We may never see, never know, what an impact our small gestures of love have on the lives of others down the line. So why do we do it? Why do we act out love in those times when we have no hope or expectation of ever knowing the ‘outcome’ or getting a ‘resolution’?

Then come to God in prayer to draw it altogether.