A Loving Disciple

Scripture: John 13: [35] By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Observation: Can people look at me and see that I am one of Jesus’ disciples by the way I love others? No, I gossip, criticize, make judgments, am impatient and rude at times. I choose who I want to love and who I’m distant to. God’s word says it’s easy to love those who loves us, but it will take the Holy Spirit to help me love those who don’t.

Application: I need to make a stronger effort to love the ones I have a hard time liking. There is no reason that Jesus should have loved me, I was self-centered, greedy, rude, unloving, yet through all that He loved me.

Prayer: My Lord help me, fill me with your love and give me strength to love everyone you put in my path. May I see them the way you see them.