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Hope

Psalm 25:4-6 (New International Version)

 ⁴ Show me your ways, O LORD, 
       teach me your paths;

 ⁵ guide me in your truth and teach me, 
       for you are God my Savior, 
       and my hope is in you all day long.

 ⁶ Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, 
       for they are from of old.

Faith, Hope and Love.  Jesus tells me that I need to focus on Hope in Him.  What that means I am not entirely sure.  To me it means focus on the good and believe in the positive.

Prayer - 

Good show me how to hope and give me direction.

Teach me your love.

Build me into what you want me to be.

Love

II Peter 1:3-9 

³ By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. ⁴ And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.

 ⁵ In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, ⁶ and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, ⁷ and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.

 ⁸ The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.

I like Peter, he seems to make things simple and straight forward to me.  He says them in ways that I can understand.  The leader of the disciples tells me that I need to work at and pay attention to my actions and that the result will be brotherly affection for all.  That is a simple spiritual thermometer.  You either have love for all or you don't.

I fall short of this thermometer and have so much more to work towards.

Prayer -

God show me love so that I may model it.

Give me love so that I might share it.

Show me who I do not love and call me to change it.

amen