Scripture focus: John 13:34-35

In our culture, sometimes the impetus to ‘get things done,’ can subvert the intentions behind our actions.  The inclination to be productive can sometimes misshape our motivations and cause us to end up doing more harm than good.  

It’s a painful discovery.  

Without reckoning with our sinful and selfish tendency to yield to such error, we inadvertently reduce relationships to transactions that cause us to use people that God intended for us to love and serve. 

So for today, just for a moment, I want to disrupt our daily routines and ask us to pause and consider again our ‘whys.’   

If it is our sincere desire to express love for God by loving others well, then let us make sure that our actions align with our intentions.  Let’s interrogate our true intentions with the highest ethics, and then let us seek God for the will to act only on that which is inspired by and affirming of our 

love for God and one another. 

Do that.   

All else should be set aside, lest we violate our conscience, dishonor God, ourselves and one another.

Margaret Douroux wrote the words to a hymn that I sing frequently.  

Will you join me in singing this as a prayer?

Give me a clean heart so I may serve thee. 

Lord, fix my heart so that I may be used by thee.

For I’m not worthy of all those blessings. 

Give me a clean heart, and I’ll follow thee.

Good afternoon, I love you all!

ihs,

just adam