Devotional: Love it Up

Love does no wrong to others, so love fulfills the requirements of God’s law.
Romans 13:10 (NLT)

If you have played a modern survival game, or nearly any game at all, you know will understand the long list of requirements involved to get anything done. Find some plants to make a fiber rope, then find some sticks to make the handle, find a good stone to use for the blade, and you can make yourself an axe. You can use it a few times and then it will break and you need to make a new one, or find better materials to make a better one. Some mobile games task you with building this building before you can build the one you want to build. Some games require you to kill so many enemies, or gather so many items to progress further. Anyway you look at it, games have a lot of requirements to fulfill to complete tasks. God also has many laws you have to obey to be with him.

From bible.com

We have the ten commandments, a list of laws that if we break, will remove us from God. we break the laws we will stand condemned. But God knew we would break even the simplest of these, so he sent his son Jesus to redeem us, to purchase our lives so we can live forever with the Father.  Jesus came because God loved us. The price of redemption was a love overwhelming, a love so deep that it died on our execution stake.


With our souls purchased, it is for us to take the deal. Once you have, our only goal should be to show that same love God had for us, to the rest of the world. Love will fulfill any requirement of law or life we can face. You won't steal if you love with your whole heart. You won't hurt someone else if you love like Jesus. And you can change the world if you give every ounce of love you have like Jesus. Love is always the answer.

Lord, help me to love in every circumstance, in every trial or while I rejoice. Help me fulfill your laws to the fullest by loving everyone I met today.