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When I do some baking (which is not as often as my spouse would like) I get out the measuring cups. Those measuring cups help me to put the correct amount of materials into the mixture. How does one know if they are following God as they should? Where are the measuring cups? How does one know they are where they should be in their relationship with God?
There are many variables. But to me (and I repeat to me) the real test of my relationship to God is how I am getting along with others. Do I love –really love others? I know that I often say I do and yet I know deep within me that I don’t always love all. In fact there are times I am out of sorts with some. If I am honest there are even times I don’t care for some who are different than I am. How does this happen and what does it mean?
I believe that there are times I drift from God’s love and try to rely on my own power to love all. I need to do some confessing. There is confessing that I do indeed not love all and that I am trying to love all on my own power.
Today I am going to spend time alone with God and ask Him to help me be an instrument of His love and not just to a select group of individuals but to all.