We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
– 1 John 4:19-20
Yet we confess: we have claimed love for You while harboring bitterness, ignoring wounds, or withholding grace from our brother, our sister, our neighbor.
We cannot walk in Your light while standing in the shadow of contempt. So teach us to love the seen as proof of our love for the Unseen.
May our “I love God” be written in how we forgive, in how we listen, in how we carry the hurting without judgment.
Make our hands into vessels, our eyes into mirrors of mercy, our voices into balm. Let love not be theory, but embodied truth.
In Jesus’ name, Love Incarnate, we humble ourselves to begin again today.
Thank You,
Amen.
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