Week 3 | Sunday - Romans 12

Rom. 12:9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13 Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.

Love must be sincere.



How do you instruct someone in that?

Of course, it IS possible to learn love, and to practice it, and to grow, and be better at it. So then if you're better at it, then it follows that it will be more sincere?

Interesting: are the following instructions (hate what is evil and so on..) new instructions, or instructions on how to make love more sincere?

One of those funny things: "Love must be sincere" is such a huge ask: I know I can improve on the depth and integrity of the way I love...but it's LOVE - that's a big, big thing...

But then of course I can look more at how I think of others, I can be filled with joy and hope, changing by the way I choose to look at things.

It's tough to remember this though; and it's easy to revert back to that self-focus; so here's a thing to try to cling to, to drive something through; that Romans 8:27-29 thing comes back to me: my purpose is to be more Christ-like: Jesus loved with a sincerity that's never been matched in the living.

Draw me nearer Jesus