Uncommon Love
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What do you do to express your love for others? What can be said or done to express your love to the people around you? What do you have that you can share with others?
We are called by God to love God and to love our neighbor.
Generosity of life expresses our love of God and our love for others. Sharing what we have with another expresses our love for our sister and our brother.
What we share in common fosters uncommon love and care.
In the book of Acts, Luke tells us of the love and care of the early church for one another.
Luke writes, “Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.” (Acts 4:32, ESV).
When we are at one with those around us and share what we have in common, uncommon community and unity is formed. We are knit together in interdependence as God’s church.
Generosity generates community. Commonality creates unity.
Sharing our resources illustrates the full extent of our love for one another, our unity, our community, and our caring.
When we are together in heart and soul, we put people over possessions.
The early church in the book of Acts expressed their love and care for one another through sharing all they had in common—in unity and in community as Christ’s Church.
Common commodity produced uncommon love and unity among the people of God.
Jesus tells us that our possessions—our treasures—express our values.
In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus said, “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Matthew 6:21, ESV).
When we treasure God above all else, then God is our ultimate treasure. Our heart values God above everything else when God is our ultimate value.
When we put people over our possessions, we are expressing the richness of the kingdom economy, where God and God’s Church—God’s community—is valued more than money.
May we treasure God above all else and share all earthly treasures in common—expressing the infinite value of God and his kingdom.
In Christ alone, Robbie
A Prayer In Times Of Social Conflict Or Distress: “Increase, O God, the spirit of neighborliness among us, that in peril we may uphold one another, in suffering tend to one another, and in homelessness, loneliness, or exile befriend one another. Grant us brave and enduring hearts that we may strengthen one another, until the disciplines and testing of these days are ended, and you again give peace in our time; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (# 44, Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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