Daily Word

To "love" is to see another person with the loving eyes of Jesus: to discern, value and love the unique person he/she is.

The love of God makes us sighted!

The people we meet on our way through life are no longer insignificant shadows, not somebody/ something we use for our own good, stepping on them to get higher ourselves, etc.

No, they are real, beautiful and unique people, created in the image of God, with an infinite value and for a special life task.

No matter how damaged, broken and distorted and thus far from realizing their destiny they may be, we will see through the external decay to their eternal, inner reality and like Jesus be moved by compassion for them, and thus become His tool for loving them into fulfilling what they are meant to be and do.

Jesus saw you and me as very precious pearls and gave His life to redeem us from our oppression and humiliation. Now, He loves other people with the same powerful love and looks at them the same way through your eyes and mine.

Such love releases God's omnipotence to lift and transform those we come in contact with and prepares us to sacrifice our time and energy and use the gifts He has placed in us to realize His loving purposes for them.

Without Love we will abuse the spiritual gifts for our own selfish ambitions.

Only love-constituted persons are God's true "co-workers".

Let us love as God loves!