Topic: DO IT OUT OF LOVE AND PASSION FOR GOD – Church of God Mission International – Above Only Daily Devotional – THURSDAY MARCH 7TH, 2024

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ABOVE ONLY DAILY DEVOTIONAL

BY: ARCHBISHOP M. E. BENSON IDAHOSA

THURSDAY MARCH 7TH, 2024

DO IT OUT OF LOVE AND PASSION FOR GOD

John 20:17 (NIV), John 3:16 (TPT)

The third time he said to him, “Simon…do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep. *For this is how much God loved the world—he gave his one and only, unique Son as a gift. So now everyone who believes in him will never perish but experience everlasting life.

Jesus could have simply told Peter to feed His sheep. But Jesus first had to ask three times if Peter loved Him, because God wants everything we do for Him to be motivated by our love for Him; which is an outflow or response to our receiving His great love for us. Whatever we do for God that is not born out of love for God is nothing before God, (1Cor.13:1-3). The Bible doesn’t just say God will not forget our labour; it says God will not forget our labour of love, (Heb.6:10).

God doesn’t want our preaching the Gospel or anything else we do for Him to be motivated by any fear of punishment or because we want to gain recognition or favour from men. What motivated God to send Jesus to save the world was His great love for all men and this must also be our motivation to preach the Gospel and do all we do for God.

God showed us His great love by sending Jesus to die for us even when we were still sinners, (Rom.5:8). Just as God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not counting men’s sins against them, He has also committed unto us the message of reconciliation, (2Cor.5:19). Do not be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God that makes men experience God saving and intervening power in their lives, (Rom.1:16).

Prayer:
Father, I thank you for the great love you have shown me in Christ. May this your love drive me in all I do for you.

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