Opening:
I hope you have good faith in love. Love is stronger than death. That is our faith. Jesus died on a cross, but came back to life. The power of love is stronger than the power of evil. So we should ourselves be more good and less evil. Let us die to selfishness. Let us live for others.
If we start becoming more faithful in small things, we will grow to become more faithful in bigger things. The act of practicing doing the right thing will help us. Even just envisioning doing the right thing ahead of time will encourage us to do it when we can.
Little things we can do for others are things like holding doors, letting people ahead of you in line when not in a rush, forgiving restaurant workers when they get our order wrong, not flipping out on managers because God covers our losses anyway, forgive people who road rage and avoid road raging yourself. If you practice forgiving people of small stuff, it becomes a habit and you grow spiritually.
Forgiveness:
God forgive us a lot. Forgive us even more than we forgive. Forgive us for not forgiving enough. Forgive us when we bear grudges. Forgive us when we want to not like people because they did jerk stuff to us that deserves it. You forgave us when we did not deserve it, thank you. God, you own!
Today’s Blessing:
I want you stoked about living. Find a hobby you enjoy and do it. Keeping your mind calm is not wasted time. You can then share your hobby with others. People can learn from it, collaborate, and enjoy your company. Then when people like you cuz you love them, you can even tell em about God loving them.
Scripture:
Psalm 68:4-5 Sing to God, sing praises to his name; prepare a way for him who rides on the clouds. His name is the LORD-be glad in his presence! God, who lives in his sacred Temple, cares for orphans and protects widows. (from www.biblegateway.com)
Praise for God:
You didn’t have to love us. You didn’t have to forgive us. We’ve been disobedient jerks to you since the garden. Some of us hurt our fellow man. Some of us rejected you to go to false gods. Some of us just went straight evil because of whatever reason. But you forgive us. You welcome us back if we turn to you. We love you, oh good God of love. Seriously, if people knew the truth, they’d love love over power, fame or money.
Prayer Cues:
Pray animals don’t go extinct.
Pray less people thing being a trash talking hater is cool.
Pray less people use tobacco. And if they do, they don’t get cancer.
Have God uncover the webs of lies which lead people to false ideas about life.