4/13/15
Tonight I am sharing a devotional for April 12 posted in the devotional book called Word for Today. We receive these books from our church, and they are filled with food for thought that can be used for daily consideration. Women's Focus Ministries hosted a retreat for 24 women this weekend and this was presented as part of our Sunday Morning Communion Service. It is very impactful.
Thank you for reading it.
Tonight I am sharing a devotional for April 12 posted in the devotional book called Word for Today. We receive these books from our church, and they are filled with food for thought that can be used for daily consideration. Women's Focus Ministries hosted a retreat for 24 women this weekend and this was presented as part of our Sunday Morning Communion Service. It is very impactful.
Thank you for reading it.
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"This is my commandment,
that you love one another as I have loved you."
John 15:12
Take a deep breath, and hold it for a moment. Now exhale it. Where did it go? That single breath of air contains at least three nitrogen atoms that were inhaled by every person by everyone who has ever lived, including Leonardo da Vinci, Winston Churchill, and Ghandi. The dinosaurs actually breathed some of the same atoms as you took into your body.The air that you breathed today will actually circle the globe in the next twelve months, and everyone will breathe at least two or three of those atoms.
That scientific fact dramatizes the connectedness between each of us. Just as we all share out chemistry with other members of the human family, so you can see that we are all interdependent. We're all affected either positively or negatively by the actions of each other.
That scientific fact dramatizes the connectedness between each of us. Just as we all share out chemistry with other members of the human family, so you can see that we are all interdependent. We're all affected either positively or negatively by the actions of each other.
During the self-centered days of what used to be called the 'Me Generation,' it was common to hear people say, 'As long as I am not hurting anyone, it is nobody's business what I do.'
Unfortunately, everything we do affects other people, and there is no such thing as a completely independent act. The poet John Donne wrote, 'No man is an island, entire of itself, every man is the a piece of a continent, a piece of the main.' With that in mind read these two Scriptures...
"A new commandment I give you, that you love one another as I have loved you."
"Owe nothing to anyone--except for your obligation to love one another."
Romans 13:8
"A new commandment I give you, that you love one another as I have loved you."
"Owe nothing to anyone--except for your obligation to love one another."
Romans 13:8
That means you have an obligation today to show your care for others in some practical way.
Shared by
Corinne Mustafa
When we receive the love of Jesus and attempt to emulate it to others the world becomes a better place.
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