By Deborah Lovett:
I know many people make resolutions for the New Year, but I have always made a New Year goal to apply one Scripture to my life for the year. I always seek the Lord for which verse in the Bible He wants me to apply to my life. This year I am finding God in another New Year’s Scripture but He has given me many verses on one subject matter. So by the end of the year, 2012, I should be a SME (Subject Matter Expert!) on what it means to love one ‘another’. Perhaps you would like to join me:
1) Do not deceive one another. (LEVITICUS 19:11)
2) Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. (ZECHARIAH 7:9)
3) Now that I, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you should also wash one another’s feet. (JOHN 13:14)
4) A new command I give you: love one another. (JOHN 13:34)
5) Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. (ROMANS 12:10)
6) Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. (ROMANS 12:16)
7) Therefore let us stop passing judgement on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way. (ROMANS 14:13)
8) Accept one another, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. (ROMANS 15:7)
9) Instruct one another. (ROMANS 15:14)
10) Greet one another with a holy kiss. (ROMANS 16: 16)
11) I appeal to you brothers, in the name of our lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought. (CORINTHIANS 1:10)
12) Serve one another in love. (GALATIANS 5:13)
I’ll post a dozen more for you tomorrow! May I suggest you personalize these scriptures as your own resolutions for the New Year, inserting your own name, plus whoever the Holy Spirit brings to your mind-as the ‘one another’ ? Then make notes as to how you will apply these verses to your relationships.
Happy New Year! May you find God by loving one another this year.
© Deborah Lovett. (www.DeborahLovett.com) Deborah is an International Speaker for Women’s Events, Retreats, and Conferences and the author of Gushing Springs, a Bible Study on the “Woman at the Well.”
Enjoy this beautiful music with escalating harmony, in this YouTube video: Love One Another (The Greatest Commands) with singing by the Acapella FC Alumni Chorus:
