Year 8-Day 81: Today, I am grateful we can love without agenda.Do you every feel like everything and everyone has an agenda? The media is a lesson book in the art of persuasion. It can be exhausting.
"Loving people means caring without an agenda. As soon as we have an agenda, it's not love anymore." -Bob Goff
The great commission was all about "going" and "making disciples". The instructions were clear. How too fulfill those instructions is where the waters seem to grow more muddy.
I love Bob's reminder to simply love people like Jesus loved them. Unconditionally and for the sake of recognizing that in God's eyes, they have value. In fact, each one of us would have been reason enough for Jesus to come.
God withheld his wrath on multiple occasions in history because one person pleaded for their loved ones lost. One person would stand in the gap between life and destruction.
As God works out His holy balance between right and wrong... just and unjust... we are reminded to love big, unconditionally and without reservation.
"Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." -1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is our calling. Truth is our responsibility... truth presented in love. Love big. Love bold. Our world needs it... desperately. Small acts of love can have a ripple effect. We can be the change we want to see.
Today, I am grateful we can love without agenda.
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