Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Col. 3:12-14
Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for the gift of another day. Like every day, it’s a day you have made, and we want to rejoice and be glad in it. So captivate our gaze with your beauty, fill our hearts with your grace, and liberate our hands for your service. We especially pray today for the outworking of the gospel in our relationships—for there is no part of our lives more perpetually in need of your Spirit’s work.
Hallelujah, many times over, that we are a chosen people (not choice); holy (in you, not in ourselves); and dearly loved (not conditionally approved). No one has more compassion for us, or shows us more kindness, than you, Lord Jesus; no one has demonstrated greater humility or is gentler with us, and none is nearly as patient as you. You love us as the Father loves you, and the Father loves us just as much as he loves you. We believe this; yet free us from our dogged, lingering, stubborn unbelief.
Because we want to love the people you’ve placed in our lives, out of your immeasurable, inexhaustible, irrepressible love for us—not simply in terms of how they relate …
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