“Great idea, Mom! George, you be Jesus and I’ll take the first pancake,” said Albert.

It was a Saturday morning and many activities were scheduled for the day. To make it special, the mother of Albert and George was preparing pancakes for them. Suddenly, they began to argue over which of them would get the first one.

Dismayed over their arguing, the mother said, “If Jesus were sitting here, He’d say ‘Let my brother have the first pancake.’”

“Great idea, Mom! George, you be Jesus and I’ll take the first pancake,” said Albert.

Paul, writing about how to “live love,” said that “love does not demand its own way.” In other words, the love that we as Christians are to demonstrate in our lives is not a self-centered love. It is a love that focuses on the needs of others - the way God loves us.

God loves us relentlessly, completely, unreservedly, and uncompromisingly with no limitations or conditions. In spite of our shortcomings or failures, He is there in us, for us, with us - loving us.

And, what does He ask of us? First, that we love Him in return for His love. Then, He asks us to love others as He loves us. When we love others as He loves us, we show others what Christian love is all about – something this world desperately needs. Live God’s love!
Prayer:Help us, Lord, to love as You loved, to give as You gave, to care as You cared, and to do as You did. May others see Jesus in us! In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Scripture For Today: 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.

Read 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 TLB

A mother said, “Bobby, you ate all that cake without thinking of your little sister.”

“I was thinking of her all the time,” he replied. “I was afraid she would come in before I finished eating it.”

Selfishness – it aims for happiness, but it cheats itself out of it.

You can’t be happy until you forget yourself. You can’t forget yourself until you remember others. And you won’t remember others until the Lord sheds His love in your heart. So, let Him.

The Bible says, “Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, never haughty or selfish.”

Prayer: Deliver us, heavenly Father, from selfishness and self-righteousness. Save us from cruel words and crude ways. So grant that guided and guarded by Thee we may live love and show Thy love to each one we meet: through Christ. Amen.