The highest form of love. Selfless, sacrificial, and unconditional love; persists no matter the circumstance.Always giving and devotes total commitment to seek the highest and the best.
I'm meditating on Matthew 22:37-39
‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’
Words from previous years:
2022 - Abide ("My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places." Isaiah 32:18, ESV)
2021 - Kindness ("She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue." Proverbs 31:26, ESV)
2020 - Joyful ("Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." Romans 12:12, NIV)
2019 - Rest (The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Exodus 33:14, NIV)
2018 - Grace (“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me." 2 Corinthians 12:9, NIV)
2017 - Less ("He [Jesus] must become greater; I must become less." John 3:30, NIV)
2016 - Wholesome ("Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." Ephesians 4:29, NIV)
In 2015 I contemplated Titus 2:3-5 (NIV) "Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God."
2019 - Rest (The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Exodus 33:14, NIV)
2018 - Grace (“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me." 2 Corinthians 12:9, NIV)
2017 - Less ("He [Jesus] must become greater; I must become less." John 3:30, NIV)
2016 - Wholesome ("Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." Ephesians 4:29, NIV)
In 2015 I contemplated Titus 2:3-5 (NIV) "Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God."
