Father, it has been a super busy last few days, but You, in Your strength, have gotten us through it! Thank You for all You have done!

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Over the last several days, Karen and I have been helping our son go through his life’s accumulation of things. He recently accepted a dream position in Texas! We are incredibly proud of him. This will be a very short post in that I am still recovering after much more lifting and moving than my body is used to.

We all have heard this verse.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. John 15:13 NKJV

But as I was thinking about it yesterday, I realized that, at least in my mind, I most often think of it in reference to someone dying out of their love for others. But I think it also applies to other things we do out of love for others.

We were on a pretty tight schedule to get a moving container packed and ready for pickup today – it arrived Thursday afternoon. There were many things to sort through, organize, clean up, and eventually load. The back room of our home has served as a storage unit following his completion of grad school.

For the most part, we stopped all other endeavors to accomplish this task. We decided to “lay down” our lives. When you woke up Monday morning, there was no MoreThanUseless blog post, which is the norm. It has happened, but it has been a rarity in the last nine years. Essentially, I laid down a pretty important part of my life – one that takes a good chunk of my time five-plus days a week…every week. But it came down to a decision of either stepping out of helping my son in a crunch time to ensure his things were loaded and ready to go or putting together another post. I chose love.

My challenge for you today is to let love rule your life. And in actuality, that should read, let Love rule your life, for as it says in the last half of 1 John 4:16,

God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides continually in him. AMP

Sometimes, we just need to lay down our life for others… Greater love has no one than this.

Jan 29th, 2024, Mon, 5:19 pm