Day 289- Love Fills in the GAPS
📖Daily Reading
2 Corinthians 12-13
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📝 Reflection
2 Corinthians 13: 14
' May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.’
As I was taking notes and reflecting this morning I wrote the following:
grace + love = fellowship or communion
When all parties in a group are abiding in grace and love we are able to fellowship or commune in harmony. Love fills the gaps of where we might otherwise find reasons to be separated. Fellowship is the word used in the NLT translation which is what I regularly read and quote from. Fellowships is defined as a friendly association with people who are interests, people meeting to pursue a shared interest. Communion is the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings on a mental or spiritual level or experience.
Now there are many times when friends and groups come together because of shared interests, hobbies or pursuit of some sort. What love and grace allow for is a totally different type of coming together. This is what allows people with opposing political views, religions, lifestyles and agendas come together inspite of their differences.
Grace and love allow the fellowship or communion through the holy spirit which is a oneness. It allows me to see myself and others as part of a whole together. It quite literally fills in the gaps. This is not just and external ‘filling’ in but it reflects what is happening on the inside of those abiding in love and grace. Their own gaps are filled in.
Do you have negative self talk? Do you have lots of holes inside? Do you keep yourself in line by following rules? Many of us may be ‘free’ from church and religious rules, but we often still create rules for ourselves and others. This creates a lot of gaps, and feelings of never being ‘good’ enough. It keeps others also in a place of behaving.
It is easy to love when someone is following your rules, and vice versa but when they step out of line do you lose that ‘loving feeling’. This is the good news of grace - you can be free from this. You can let love in and fill your gaps and hollow places. In God’s economy there is no need to perform and conform. He loves you and me not inspire of our humanness but because of our humanness. That is what make room for him.
When we don’t accept grace we certainly can’t give it. Grace can’t be accepted without humility and a humble spirit. Pride is a thick barrier that keeps grace and love out. The law or our own rules is the veil that keeps our heart from seeing the truth. It tells us we and everyone else must do this or that, believe this way or else. It keeps us vulnerable to believing in the counterfeit conditional version of love with strings attached that we humans have to offer. That kind of ‘love’ widens the gap.
God’s love, combined with the grace of Christ that he so humbly personified fills in the gaps so that we may fellowship and commune with God within and without. We are not separate, this is an illusion, a trick of the enemy and our egos. We are one.
I often hear people say things like ‘I can give others grace, but not myself’. Why is that? Also, is it true? If this is you: do you give grace to everyone or just those you ‘love’ or like. Do you hold others to higher or different standards, they get grace as long as they believe this or that, go to your church, belong to your political party, belong to your other acceptable groups? I think some of use give grace to our privileged few, but not as much as we might like to think.
I think this is an inside out job. I know it is for me. I have a lot of practicing, walking and living it out to do! Time go shoe shopping 👟.
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
I often hear people say things like ‘I can give others grace, but not myself’. Why is that? Also, is it true? If this is you: do you give grace to everyone or just those you ‘love’ or like. Do you hold others to higher or different standards, they get grace as long as they believe this or that, go to your church, belong to your political party, belong to your other acceptable groups? I think some of use give grace to our privileged few, but not as much as we might like to think.
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Galatians 1-2
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