“Now may the God who gives endurance and who supplies encouragement grant that you be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus, so that with one accord you may with one voice glorify and praise and honor the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, [continue to] accept and welcome one another, just as Christ has accepted and welcomed us to the glory of [our great] God.” Romans 15:5-7 AMP
REFLECTION
We can only truly love and accept others (and ourselves) to the degree that we experience Christ’s loving acceptance. Only our merciful Maker, who is love, can enable us to deeply know His love and fully accept and love ourselves and others. So let’s pray for grace to yield to Him, His process and timing, for the One who lovingly made and shapes us knows in full while we know only in part, and He alone knows the depth and complexity of every heart.
PRAYER POEM
LORD, I pray to stay yielded to You in all that I think, say and do. May I never You grieve. Help me more deeply in Your love dwell and learn how to love well.
In Jesus’ name, amen.