Samuel D. High
sdhigh@aristotle.net
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From: Apostle Tom <pressingon@hotmail.com>
Sent: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:54:41 -0600
To: <pressingon@hotmail.com>
Subject: Morning Manna (Dec. 1); BP: I Thess. 3:11-13; RBTTY: II Pet. 3; Ez.
December 1 “On Increasing and Abounding”
“And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another and toward all men, even as we do toward you.”
I Thessalonians 3:12
Increasing and abounding in love
Is how we’re told to live;
It matters not whether in word or deed,
We’re taught to love and forgive.
In reality the litmus test of life
In all we say and do
Is how we show the Father’s love
To you and you and you.
It’s easy to think that serving God
Is limited to offerings and praise;
However, the truest proof of our love for Christ
Is how we treat others each day.
Am I partial in my loving
And limit it to a certain few?
Or like God, am I no respecter of persons
In the things I say and do?
Until I can honestly say
That I love all others the same,
It’s impossible for me to say Christ’s love lives in me
Though I profess to be called by His Name.
It’s only when His love and acceptance
To all others is given so free
That I can say His love is alive and abounding,
And at work in every part of me.
Yes, until His love is so freely given
To others, both great and small—
Red, yellow, black and white—
I can’t say I’ve known Him or His love at all.
So, help me this day, dear Lord, I pray
To love others as You have loved me—
For only then will your love increase and abound
And be obvious for all to see.
--Tom Smith
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