God loves you with a believing love.
In Philippians 4:13 we find a well-known verse which tells us: for I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.
How are you feeling today? Are you feeling ready to take on the world? Are you feeling like a fisher of men? Do you feel like getting out there and loving someone with a massive, sacrificial, generous love, showing them the love of God?
Or do you feel small, insignificant, unable to make a difference? Do you feel that although you have been trying for a week, that the task of Love 40 days is going to be a little too much?
The truth is, however you feel, that you can do everything through Christ, who gives you strength.
God believes in you. God has a purpose for you. He has good works that he prepared in advance for you to do. Many times we discount ourselves because we know ourselves so well. But God knows you even better than you know yourself, and he still believes in you. Not because of anything you bring to the table, but because with his strength, and the gifts he has given you, he can do mighty things. We just have to choose to let him use us.
So today, be encouraged by God's believing love and know that, as Jesus promised at the end of the Great Commission - the mission he gives to each one of us - (Matthew 28:20), he is with you always, even to the end of the age.
And maybe there is someone in your world who needs to know that somebody believes in them too...
We often think you have to do something for someone to be loving, but I think sometimes allowing someone to use their gifts to help you is also a loving act. Often we don't want to let people see our weakness but accepting an offer of help and allowing that person to feel valued and part of our lives can be pretty powerful. It's a good reminder to serve others and allow others to serve us too. Sometimes I think inviting people to serve as part of the bigger picture shows them the big God who drew it...
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