A Daily Devotion for Wednesday, January 1

1Peter 1:22-23

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

I am thinking about this “sincere love” and how it might be a little different because it is the love between believers. But maybe the point is that once we know Jesus, we are able to love more fully. So this sincerity is about us and where our love for others is coming from. Jesus’ love was certainly sincere- he lived out his love to his very last breath.

Holy Lord, you have given so much to your people, day after day, blessing after blessing. May I learn to love with full sincerity, as Jesus loved. Amen

Becky, transforming

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