A Compelling Love

{Daily Selah}

We live in a world filled with hate. Regardless of where you live, you have been exposed to it in some way. We see it on social networking sites almost daily. Posts and comments bashing Christians, Jews, God and the Bible are rampant. 

What's the best response?

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again (2 Corinthians 5:14-15).

When we respond in anger, who are we serving? Our responsibility is to live as those for whom Christ died and live compelled by His love. 

In the video at the link below, a Lebanese man trained from childhood for jihad tells how the love of Christ expressed through other people brought him to seek the One, True God. Click here to see a testimony of love.


My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth (1 John 3:18). 

God requires us to live a life of love. Love is more than words. Love is expressed in what we do... for our families, friends, neighbors and even for our enemies. 

A Compelling Love.



Father, thank You for expressing Your love for us by sending Your Son to die in our place. Help us to live as those for whom Christ died by expressing His love to everyone we meet, for Your glory. In Jesus' Name, amen.