Today I am understanding the importance of unity.
I am a loner.
I love being by myself.
People can sometimes be so cruel, demanding, unpredictable that I prefer the safety, stability, freedom, ease and peace of just being alone.
I am a loving person who desires to love and be good to others. I am not perfect at this, but I strive to be.
I don't always understand the cruelty of man. Well, I understand, I just wish it wasn't so.
This all makes me a sensitive person-one that bears their heart on their sleeves, can be quick to open my heart to others. However, this also make me hurt easily, quickly take offense, and check out of the relationship mentally for good.
I can say I do this with intentionality as a means to protect myself. Maybe this was once the case, but now it's on autopilot. It's so natural that I have to work hard against it for there to be any other outcome.
I am learning to close and guard my mind, heart and spirit; to not entrust myself to anyone; to protect and conserve my energy: to not talk so much; and to be vigilant.
Incorporating all of these elements into daily living, if not done soberly and with the right heart posture can divide the body of Christ and set you not just apart but against your fellow man.
This is not the desire of Christ.
We are to love God with all of our heart, mind and strength and love our neighbor as we love ourselves.
Reading through the New Testament there is not just an instruction, but there are prayers and pleas from Christ, Peter, Paul, James and other notable figures to be of one mind, united in spirit, moving in peace, comforting one another, agreeing with one another and showing brotherly love to each other.
Is this not the aim of it all- to love? Whom do we love?
God so loved the world. Shouldn't we?
We miss it entirely when we fail to love. Not with condition, but with the love of Christ.
God is love. His spirit permeates throughout the universe, His creation. It is on the move.
We must stay in the spirit of love. We may ride the wave of His love.
We must not block ourselves from it but remain in the flow of it.
Unforgiveness, bitterness, hate, division all create barriers and blockages to the flow.
This is where the devil wants us- cut off from the flow; cut off from God.
Oh, today join me and seek to be love.
Let us fix our mind and hearts to stay in the flow of love.
Be sober and vigilant. Guard your heart as everything flows from this.
Allow these actions to now free you to settle into a posture of love.
This does not mean trying to be everyone's friend, being fake nice, smiling and talking to everyone you see, remaining in the presence of those that clearly don't value you, not respecting others boundaries.
It simply means maintaining a posture of peace, patience, kindness and not envying, nor being prideful, not dishonoring or disrespecting others, not self-seeking, not boasting, not easily angered, not keeping a record of wrongs, not delighting in evil but rejoicing in truth.
Be sure to know what love is and what it is not according to the word and seek to love God and be united to your fellow man in love, making sure to lavish that same love on yourself.
This intention encompasses the entire law.
From Jennifer:
Today, practice remaining in the posture of love and unity and remaining in the flow of God Himself. Pay attention to attempts to pull you out and resist it. Ground yourself, breathe deeply and think on those things that are pure, noteworthy, lovely and admirable of praise. Resist the enemy and return to love. Bind to love and don't allow yourself to become separated by it.
Question of the day
Are you remaining in a posture of love?
What posture do you remain in throughout your day?
Know the tactics of the enemy. Be mindful of your heart posture and keep it pure and holy before the Lord.
Scripture
13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Jesus Prays for All Believers
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
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