SOAP Devotional 2014-06-09

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SOAP Devotional 2014-06-09

Scripture – Observation – Application – Prayer

Scripture:

If we love our brothers and sisters who are believers, it proves that we have passed from death to life. But a person who has no love is still dead. Anyone who hates another brother or sister is really a murderer at heart. And you know that murderers don’t have eternal life within them. We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no compassion—how can God’s love be in that person? Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions. Our actions will show that we belong to the truth, so we will be confident when we stand before God. (1 John 3:14-19 NLT)

Observation:

Key to this passage, “We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.” The love true believers have for one another is proved through their acknowledgment that the love comes from Jesus and is demonstrated through our actions of service toward each other. It is more than something we say, it is something is something we do.

Application:

We should demonstrate that we love our spiritual brothers and sisters even as we would our blood brothers and sisters. It comes from deep within who we are and it is demonstrated by our actions to take care of each other.

Prayer:

Father, let me be moved from within by the love you have placed in me to care for my brothers and sisters in Christ as though they were my own flesh and blood.

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