Day 43: Wednesday, April 17, 2019
33 “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
36 Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?”
Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.”
37 Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
38 Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!
When we cannot be where You are,
Teach us to love like You love
Wherever we are.
When we look for you and cannot find You,
Teach us to love like You love
No matter what we find.
When we do not understand,
Teach us to love like You love
In confusion and uncertainy.
When we are willing to lay down our lives for You,
Teach us to love like You love
And live how You lived.
When we deny, disown, depart, dissect, disturb, or diminish,
Teach us to love like You love
And to be loved.
May I let go of all that is not love.
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Amen!