"Community was God's idea from the beginning." In Theta Alpha (the Christian Sorority I helped found), we always seek to define community. It's a matter of letting God define it though... It is easily forgotten that the creator of the Universe could give us the simple answer. It's about love, sacrifice, and sometimes pain. I love cognitive dissonance. It's that something that makes you cringe, and therefore you change your behavior. Not that you have to cringe to change, but at times it is necessary.
Love is complex, and yet so simple. The lengths and depths of love are unfathomable, but at the same time the concept of love is easy to understand. Love God, and then love people. God is love... If you just let Him in then there is no leg work. You don't need to understand, because He does!! Just let Him be your love.
Back2Back has us do a devotion every morning for the whole week that we are here. The theme for the year is "one another." So today is love one another. The verses for the week come from Galatians 5:13-26. Love is a lot of sacrifice, especially when you are serving in a different country. Maybe you don't speak the same language to tell someone you love them, but maybe the act of serving food will speak for itself. Or putting a roof on a church and soup kitchen that will serve a squatter village.
Love is not a bunch of rules that you have to follow. Like open the door for people and make sure to say nice things all the time... it has nothing to do with legalism. Verse 23 says that if we make love a bunch of rules and obligations, then it is no longer love.
I hope that this week, we can love one another and be completely humbled. The children in Mexico who have nothing, share everything. That is love. I hope in humility we can learn from them...
.kristen.
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