The Seed of Love

1 Peter 1:22-25
22Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.[b] 23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, 25but the word of the Lord stands forever."[c] And this is the word that was preached to you.

Spirit of God you have purified my soul with the truth of your word by enabling me to obey and become as you – filled with sacrificial love. Where your kind of love is lacking in me, I pray that you would bring conviction through your word and fill those voids so that I may love fervently and without regard for what I may get in return. The love of this world is turned upside down. We love as long as we are getting something in return. But that is not the way that you love Father.

You love because of who you are, first and foremost. You loved me before I returned the affection. While I was rebellious and filled with sinful pride you modeled your love and confirmed it through the death of your Son, my Savior and King.

Now I am enabled to love purely and fervently because your sacrificial love has brought a harvest of righteousness into my heart enabling me to do so unconditionally and mercifully. And when I do love as you, you get the glory, not me. The seed of that love has been your living and abiding word which bears the fruit of your love within me. It is through that word that I have been born again into a life of obedience. And your word is what makes me eternally alive. My body and its desires live but a season, but your word planted within my heart endures forever and bears a harvest of righteousness to your glory.

May my heart and mind be transformed by your eternal word today. Make me to have your kind of sacrificial love.