Reading the devotion from Our Daily Journey with this specific article written by Winn Collier:
Jesus told us to “Love your neighbour”, but we can’t love our neighbour if we don’t know our neighbour (Mark 12:31).
Reading this makes me realize just how selfish I have been and still is.
I have labelled ‘this group’ as the people who ruined a good part of my life and my focus was on how they hurt me, what they said to me, how they treated me, me me me. I didn’t bother getting to know the people in this group because selfishly I was only thinking about how the world revolved around me. How they revolved around me.
But they’re all unique individuals facing their own issues and finding their place in God’s world. Everyone is facing their own troubles, fighting their own past and trying to move forward in this world while I’ve just been thinking about how their life relates to mine.
Dear Lord
Thank you for helping me see this, I pray you can continue to help me see my own selfishness, humble me to see my own darkness and not others. This way I will always be reminded to stay close to you, to fight my sinful nature by your strength not my own.
I want to get to know the people that hurt me, I want to love them because you first loved me. You know the darkness in my heart, you know the many terrible things I have done and thought, yet you still care about me. Thank you so much, because of your love for me I know I will be able to love this group. I know I will be able to become the person you want me to be. Please give me the strength to fight to stay close to you.
In Jesus’ Precious name I pray,
Amen
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