🙌It's the Friday Call to Worship!🙌
I am sharing some of my favorite call to worships from the past during the month of January. Today's was originally sent on 9 April 2021.
I laid next to my 2-year-old son last night and tried to read bedtime stories. He interrupted every word I said, unable to withhold his enthusiasm. He chattered and grinned, while bobbing a pacifier in his mouth like a cigar. I stopped and savored the moment, completely consumed with love for him.
For an instant, I felt like I was on the outside looking into something extraordinary. Love for my son was pulsing through me, despite his remarkable defiance and destruction that day. I spend days cleaning mess after mess, doing unseen and unappreciated tasks, and exchanging my needs for his. And last night, as that powerful love cascaded over me, I realized that I am the one truly experiencing God's love.
His love gives. His love is made complete in us when we willingly give something precious for the benefit of another. The love of Jesus will quench your deepest thirst and satisfy your wildest cravings. In its truest form, that perfect love is what compels us to love.
My children will benefit from having a mom who loves them, and I hope they grow up loving me too. But I get to walk in the fullness of the love of God in the inglorious daily giving, loving and serving them. Today's call to worship is to love somebody in a way that costs you. Love someone else in a way that won't benefit you at all. That is where you will encounter the full expression of God, and He is so good!
"No one has ever gazed upon the fullness of God's splendor. But if we love one another, God makes his permanent home in us, and we make our permanent home in him, and his love is brought to its full expression in us." 1 John 4:12 TPT
Listen to Israel Houghton's "Reckless Love" today, and be inspired by the love He has for you!