Advent Reflection: 9th December

Every day this Advent we will be sharing reflections from Christian authors. Today's is by Joyce Meyer.

Love One Another

I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves].—JOHN 13:34–35

You can defeat Satan with a good, strong, healthy love walk. Not enough Christians concentrate on walking in love. We concentrate on prosperity, healing, success, our breakthrough, how to change our family, how to get a loved one saved. But Jesus said we need to concentrate on walking in love.

I am talking about treating people with excellence. I am talking about meeting needs. I am talking about how we talk about one another and how we talk to one another. I am talking about not being rude. Walking in love means being a blessing to somebody else.

It is impossible to keep Satan under our feet while leading a self- ish lifestyle that always reverts back to “What about me—me, me, me, me?” One of the first things the Bible says about love is that it is not selfish or self-seeking. Love does not do the right thing to get something; love simply does the right thing because it is the right thing to do. It not only blesses others; it blesses the one doing the loving.

Lord, I pray that Your love would be so concentrated in my heart that I might love others as You love me. Make me a source of blessing to others and a victor over the enemy. Amen.

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