Topic: Put on the Armour of Love  [Church of God Mission International] Above Only Daily Devotional 31 October 2021

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Above Only Daily Devotional
Sunday October, 31 2021

Put on the Armour of Love

1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 (NIV), Romans 12:19-21
So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. *Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; …. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

One of the things that God wants us to be deliberate about in these last days is walking in love. “The end of all things is near. You must be self-controlled and alert, to be able to pray. Above everything, love one another earnestly, because love covers over many sins,” (1Pet.4:7-8, GNB). Many offences are going to come our way to attempt distracting us and making us lose our focus. We have to be conscious of this and not allow the hate and hurts from people to distract us. We have to be sober and walk in the light. To be sober is to be in your right mind or to be self-controlled. No matter what happens, we must not forget we are the children of the light. The Bible says, “If we say that we are in the light, yet hate others, we are in the darkness to this very hour. If we love others, we live in the light, and so there is nothing in us that will cause someone else to sin. But if we hate others we are in the darkness; we walk in it and do not know where we are going, because the darkness had made us blind,” (1 John 2:9-11, GNB).

Also Read: Open Heaven 31 October 2021 – Topic: THE LORD STRONG AND MIGHTY

Our first text above says, “let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate.” A breastplate guards some of the most important organs of the body like the heart and the lungs. God wants us to guard our hearts with faith and love. The faith and love comes from the revelation of all God has done for us in Christ. If we are going to continue walking in love despite what people do to us, then we must let what God has done for us in Christ remain fresh and abundant in our consciousness at all times. Our focus must be more of God’s love than on what people do to us. We cannot give what we do not have. Jesus said that we should love our enemies, bless them that curse us, do good to them that hate us and pray for those who despitefully use and persecute us, (Matt.5:44).

Prayer Focus:
Pray for yourself and other believers, that God will help us to keep walking in love no matter the hate and hurt thrown at us.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR READING PLAN
Lamentations 4:1-5:22, Hebrews 2:1-18, Psalm 103:1-22, Proverbs 26:23