Stay Wide-Awake in Prayer…

“Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything. Be quick to give a meal to the hungry, a bed to the homeless—cheerfully. Be generous with the different things God gave you, passing them around so all get in on it: if words, let it be God’s words; if help, let it be God’s hearty help. That way, God’s bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, and he’ll get all the credit as the One mighty in everything—encores to the end of time. Oh, yes! ” 1st Peter 4:7b-11 (msg)

Since I stumbled upon this passage…
it has grabbed my heart…
I want it to saturate my mind…
I long for it to be the song of my life…

Can you imagine it? living a life in a world where we “love each other as if your life depended on it” just typing the words gives me a rush…an ideal for which to obtain…
a desire…

a desire…to get out the note-cards and spill my vulnerability out on the blank pages mailing them to those God has laid on my heart…
a desire…to stop by a friends home and give them a surprise hug…
a desire…to DO that verb of a word we call LOVE…

Have you noticed that the verse states to “love each other as if YOUR life depended on it” it does not say “love each other as if THEIR lives depended on it.” there is a HUGE distinction going on there…

If your life depended on how you love ‘each other’ would you survive?

Carelessly,

April