Love One Another Gladly

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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🗓️ 6 November 2022

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Loving acts are genuine to the degree that they are not done begrudgingly.

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0:00.0	Nov. 6. Love one another gladly. He has told you, man, what is good and what does the Lord
0:09.2	require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God,
0:16.9	Micah 6.8. No one has ever felt unloved because he was told that the attainment of his joy
0:26.3	would make another person happy. I have never been accused of selfishness when justifying
0:34.0	a kindness on the basis that it delights me. On the contrary, loving acts are genuine to the
0:45.3	degree that they are not done begrudgingly and the good alternative to begrudgingly is not
0:53.2	neutrally or dutifully but gladly. The authentic heart of love loves kindness, Micah 6.8.
1:02.8	It doesn't just do kindness. Christian hedonism forces this truth into consideration.
1:11.6	By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and obey his commandments
1:19.7	for this is the love of God that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not burdensome
1:28.2	for everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. 1 John 5 to 4. Read these sentences
1:38.2	in reverse order and notice the logic. First, being born of God gives a power that conquers
1:49.6	the world. This is given as the ground or the basis. Note the word 4. For the statement that the
1:59.1	commandments of God are not burdensome. So being born of God gives a power that conquers our
2:07.6	worldly aversion to the will of God. Now his commandments are not burdensome but are the
2:15.7	desire and the delight of our heart. This is the love of God not just that we do his commandments
2:24.4	but that they are not burdensome. Then in verse 2 the evidence of the genuineness of our love for
2:32.7	the children of God is said to be the love of God. What does this teach us about our love for the
2:41.9	children of God? Since love for God is doing his will gladly rather than with the sense of burden
2:52.5	and since love for God is the measure of the genuineness of our love for the children of God,
2:58.8	therefore our love for the children of God must also be done gladly rather than begrudgingly.
3:07.2	Christian hedonism stands squarely in the service of love for it presses us on to glad obedience,
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