If at First You Don't Succeed - Accept Help

S - “Dear friend, I am not writing to tell you and your children to do something you have not done before. I am writing to tell you to love each other, which is the first thing you were told to do. Love means we do what God tells us. And from the beginning, he told you to love him.” 2 John 5-6 CEV

O - These verse come directly from the purpose heaven has for every human being every day and every circumstance. According to Jesus, loving is not only the first thing, it is always, without exception, the most important thing. It is the greatest command upon which all other Scripture depends (Matthew 22:34-40). It is his new commandment for his followers and it is the singular identifier, the only verification, of those who actually are his followers (John 13:34-35). The problem is not in people trying it or at some point intermittently engaging it. The problem is in accepting love as THE priority regardless of the situation. Culture (secular and religious) is willing and even encouraging for love to be A qualified priority but not the unqualified one regardless of the circumstance.

A - Heaven stands perpetually ready to enable all to engage and fulfill this command. In fact, it knows that without its direct intervention earthlings will be unable to so live. So magnanimously committed to empowering us in this essential activity, heaven doesn't even require us to perform it flawlessly; just truthfully. When failure occurs we are to admit, apologize, recalibrate and reengage. This is the beauty of unconditional love. Humans can never fully experience or express it until conditions arise. I accept this amazing and unflickering imperative. I choose to love and admit that all heaven stands ready to make it so … and to work everything for good.

P - Lord who is incarnate love,

Thank you, thank you, thank you for relentlessly loving us; for making the way and being the way for us to experience and express unconditional love. I need and want your love and I need and want to give love the way I am receiving it. I ask for and accept the help you offer … help, transformation not self-help and human effort.