Choose Love

From the file entitled “It Ain’t Gonna Happen,” I pull and pose this suggestion.  Let’s make Christ’s command a federal law.  Everyone has to make God’s love his or her home.  Let it herewith be stated and hereby declared:
          No person may walk out into the world
          to begin the day until he or she has stood
          beneath the cross to receive God’s love.

Cabbies.  Presidents.  Preachers.  Tooth pullers and truck drivers.  All required to linger at the fountain of his favor until all thirst is gone.

Don’t you ache for the change we’d see?  Less honking and locking horns, more hugging and helping kids.  We’d pass fewer judgments and more compliments.  Forgiveness would skyrocket.

Wild idea?  I agree.  God’s love can’t be legislated, but it can be chosen.  Choose it, won’t you?  For Christ’s sake, and yours, choose it.

1 of 365 devotionals in Grace for the Moment, Volume II
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From Come Thirsty