I find myself getting more and more fed up with people. I get frustrated when I ask people questions and they don’t give me answers that are one bit true. When people just say things to shut you up, I get irritated easily. I find my love growing colder for people everyday. I know it’s wrong, and I don’t like it. I wish people would just act with some accountability, or have an ounce of integrity. But then I think about it, and the answer comes easily: how can a man act in love or walk with integrity if he doesn’t know the Author of love and integrity. It’s my job to show them what these terms are. It’s my job to speak and demonstrate truth in their lives. Christians need to rise up and start being the light that Jesus talked about. Even the dimmest of light shines brightly in a dark and lost world. Lord, forgive me for allowing my love for people to grow cold. Bind Satan’s ploy to confuse me into seeing people as the enemy. Yes, help me recognize sin, and be responsive and sensitive to it. But keep my eyes on you, and help my love for You and others grow deeper and hotter. Only then will I be able to overcome a cold and insensitive attitude towards people I should be loving.
1 “Write this letter to the angel of the church in Ephesus. This is the message from the One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven gold lampstands: 2 “I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance. I know you don’t tolerate evil people. You have examined the claims of those who say they are apostles but are not. You have discovered they are liars.3 You have patiently suffered for Me without quitting.4 “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love Me or each other as you did at first!5 Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to Me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.6 But this is in your favor: You hate the evil deeds of the Nicolaitans, just as I do.7 “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what He is saying to the churches. To everyone who is victorious I will give fruit from the tree of life in the paradise of God.
Revelation 2:1-7
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