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Who inspires you?  My answer is many different people in my book.  Often these are people very close to me, but at times they are people from history or stories I have heard.  Each story or person has left a mark on me by being an inspiration.  We need to be inspired.

 

There are people who stick out because they loved me and others sacrificially.  Then there are people like Mother Teresa or Billy Graham.  Move on to the sweet little lady at church that serves faithfully or a friend that few people know but has made a a huge difference in many lives.

 

Romans 12:9  NLT

Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.

 

Loving the way Jesus loves is incredible.  It is inspiring.  To love like like Jesus loved is a high calling and stirs up confidence as you help someone know they have value and are loved.

 

John 15:13  NIV

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

 

Watch out…when you say that you love someone, love them.  Love acts like love.  Love responds in loving ways.  Love follows through even when it costs you something.

 

James 2:14-16  NIV

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?  15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.  16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?   


Love inspires others in ways we might not even realize.  


We owe people love because God first loved us.  His love inspired us and inspires others through us.


Think about the people who have inspired you through loving you.  Do what Jesus did.  Follow His and their example.

 

Romans 13:8  NASB

Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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