Sept. 15th

I am choosing a longer passage this time around and suspect that it may take me longer than two weeks to have it memorized. I have been reading a book called the "Tangible Kingdom" by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay and have been reading the books in the Bible by the apostle John. The theme that keeps coming up in all of them and the call I feel from it is to love others. Such a simple phrase to throw out but so hard to actually do. Knowing how finite my love is makes this an almost depressing task. I also want to be an overcomer through the power of God. I want His love to propel me to take the risk to love others - even when it is painful and though it will involve personal loss. God shows this is the way and I want to have courage enough to follow.

Isaiah 58: 6 - 8 NIV
Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?
Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter - when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.