“Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;”
– Romans 12:10 KJV
Have you ever felt like you weren’t strong enough to get through another day?
Trauma, stress, or an overloaded day can make you feel like you can’t take another step.
I can speak from experience in this area.
The pressures of being a good mom, wife, and steward of Christ can be overwhelming some days. Top it off with anxiety, loss, and the stress of trying to find a house in this crazy market, and some days it feels like I might explode.
Have you been there?
Don’t get me wrong, motherhood, being a wife, and living for Christ are the three things I love and live for! However, I want to be the best for those I love, and it can feel overwhelming.
Fortunately, God has placed people in my life who have unexpectedly shown me love, from giving me random gifts to sending me a loving text.
God calls us to love one another. Love isn’t just an emotion. It’s an action.
“and in your godliness, brotherly affection, and in your brotherly affection, [develop Christian] love [that is, learn to unselfishly seek the best for others and to do things for their benefit].”
- 2 Peter 1:7 AMP
During an earlier part of my grief, we had some friends who willingly sacrificed their time and money to help us feel comforted – all unexpectedly. They took us to dinner (on their dime) and we had multiple friends who offered to drop everything to be with us whenever we needed help (though they have multiple kids). It’s love like this that kept us going.
Not only did that love comfort me, but it reminded me of how thankful I am to God for placing people like this in my family’s life. It also encouraged me to be better at showing my love to others.
It’s love like this that makes all the difference. Sometimes, when we feel distant from God, He gently reminds us of His love for us.
I want to encourage you today to reach out to someone and surprisingly show your love. You may never know the impact it will have. but it might be the “lifeline” they need to keep going another day.
1 Corinthians 13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Graceful Warriors 
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