How will others see the sacrifice that Jesus made for them if I don’t show others the sacrifice I’m willing to make for them?
There is something more magnificent than clutching onto what I desire every moment of the day. That thing I wanted to get done, the coffee break I was counting on all morning, the kid’s baseball game I just had to make. Something more magnificent than these may be standing right in front of me.
Is there a co-worker who is overwhelmed and could use a hand? Is there a friend who may need to go get that coffee with me and have a long talk on the way? Is there an old man struggling to walk who needs a ride? I have done each of these with my heart wide open and it was easy. I just had to remember what I’m actually here for. I believe it is to love.
There is something about staying in the beautiful awareness of being a child of God that frees me to share His great love. I never have to worry about running low on what I need if I keep my focus on the One who died to give me life and life in abundance. Jesus wants everyone in my life to have that too. He asks that I abandon my intentions and yield to His— to let love flow from Him through me to them so they will be saved, loved and blessed by Him too. When I remember to lay my life wide open with His love, blessings flow.
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:9-11
Meeting God at the Park 