Humility and Love
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How do we handle people who wrong us and break our trust? How has God dealt with us?
If we live in this world for any time at all, we will be wronged by someone. We will get hurt at some point in our lives by others. Trust will be broken. Wounds will be received. People will break us. We will experience sin.
How should we respond when we experience brokenness from others?
The scriptures teach us in Romans that “God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8, ESV).
The Apostle John wrote, “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” (1 John 4:11, ESV).
Forgiveness and love are not easy and can cost us a greatly. Forgiveness and love is not free. It cost Jesus his life to give us his forgiveness and love.
It is this same sacrifice of forgiveness and love that God calls us to in response to his own forgiveness and love.
This is why the Apostle Paul wrote the church in Ephesus saying, “With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love.” (Ephesians 4:2 ESV).
May we live out the good news of Jesus well and model his own humility in forgiveness and love as we live out of our faith.
For growth in the knowledge and love of God the Father: “Almighty God who so loved the world that you gave your only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life; pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of love by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us, that we may delight in the inheritance that is ours as your sons and daughters, and live to your praise and glory, through Jesus Christ. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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