Verse of the Day

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. Romans 12:10

We totally live in a "me" society today. If someone makes us angry or hurts us by saying or doing something "out of line" we justify our anger and self righteous responses because that person is in the wrong. If we don't like the actions of someone, or their stance on something, we justify our actions and attitudes because we don't think they are "right". We judge without walking in their shoes. We try to remove the sawdust out of their eye without first removing the plank from our own eye.

What exactly does devotion me? It means to be dedicated to something. Who are we supposed to be dedicated to? One another-i.e. everyone. How are we supposed to be devoted? In brotherly love? We are brothers and sister in Christ. First and foremost we are to love each other in this manner. If we do not love our brother, whom we can see, how can we profess to love God, whom we cannot see?

How can we honor one another? What does that mean? It means we are to hold each other in high regard with high respect. Does that mean we have to respect everyone's choices and/or actions and agree with them? Absolutely not!! However, we do have to respect that each of us our God's children, and to hold each other in higher regard than ourselves. Sometimes that means just being o.k. with the fact that someone has done something that was not really right by us, but we love them anyway.

It does go against our "human" nature to put others above ourselves. However, we are called to be that way. If you have a situation where that is not the case, today would be a good day to make a new start with that situation, a good day to make a fresh start.