Our Daily Bread Devotional 20 April 2022 ODB || Love Is Worth the Risk
DAILY DEVOTION OF THE DAY 20TH APRIL 2022 – Read today’s ODB daily devotional for today Wednesday 20 April 2022 titled Love is Worth the Risk on Our Daily Bread Devotional.
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TOPIC: LOVE IS WORHT THE RISK
Our Daily Bread Devotional 20-4-2022 ODB || Key Bible Verse:
If you love me, keep my commands. – John 14:15
Our Daily Bread 20 April 2022 ODB Daily Devotional || Today’s Scripture: John 21:15–19
TODAY’S ODB DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR WEDNESDAY 20TH APRIL 2022 AS Our Daily Bread || INSIGHT
After a friend ended our decade-long friendship without explanation, I began slipping back into my old habit of keeping people at arms’ length. While processing my grief, I pulled a tattered copy of The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis off my shelf. Lewis makes a powerful observation about love requiring vulnerability. He states there’s “no safe investment” when a person risks loving. He suggests that loving “anything [will lead to] your heart being wrung and possibly broken.” Reading those words changed how I read the account of the third time Jesus appeared to His disciples after His resurrection (John 21:1–14), after Peter had betrayed Him not once but three times (18:15–27).
Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” (21:15).
After experiencing the sting of betrayal and rejection, Jesus spoke to Peter with courage not fear, strength not weakness, selflessness not desperation. He displayed mercy not wrath by confirming His willingness to love.
Scripture reveals that “Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, ‘Do you love me?’ ” (v. 17). But when Jesus asked Peter to prove his love by loving others (vv. 15–17) and following Him (v. 19), He invited all His disciples to risk loving unconditionally. Each of us will have to answer when Jesus asks, “Do you love me?” Our answer will impact how we love others. By: Xochitl Dixon
Bible in a Year: 2 Samuel 9–11, Luke 15:11–32
Our Daily Bread Devotional 20-April-2022 ODB || REFLECT: Why would a loving God ask His beloved children to risk being hurt for the sake of loving others like Jesus did? How can an intimate relationship with God help you feel safe enough to risk loving?
Our Daily Bread Devotional 20 April 2022 ODB || PRAYER:
Loving God, please break down every wall that keeps me from being vulnerable so I can love You and others with Spirit-empowered courage, compassion, and consistency.
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Our Daily Bread Devotional 20th April 2022 ODB || Love Is Worth the Risk
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