And may the Master pour on the love so it fills your lives and splashes over on everyone around you, just as it does from us to you. - 1Thessalonians 3.12 (The Message)
What an encouragement given to a young church plant by the apostle Paul. It wasn't that they did not have love, and he was petitioning the Master to give them something they were lacking. No. They were full of love and Paul wants the Master to continue to pour on the love. This ought to be our cry. Paul wants the love to be poured on them for two reasons.
First he wants to see them grow in their love for each other. When he says "so it fills your lives," the "your" is not an individual you, but a plural you. Foremost he wants the Master to pour on the love so it fills them up with love for each other. Second, Paul wants this love to splash over on everyone around them. We should be so full of the love of God that it splashes over on everyone we meet. This is not a gushy, mushy love. Note that Paul wants them to have the same love that he has shown them, and he was no softy.
What incredible application to where we are today. May we love each other more and more through these difficult and strenuous days ahead. And may our love splash over onto those around us - in our neighborhoods, at our offices, in our schools, in our homes, everywhere we go.
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Pray diligently that the Master would pour on the love so it fills our hearts for each other. May our love for each other be the testimony others need to see. May this love we have received from the Master also splash all over those around us. May we embrace others in incredibly ridiculous ways because we have had love poured on us in an incredibly ridiculous way.
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