PASSAGE: Luke 10 [27] Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, love your neighbor as yourself.
INSIGHT: Living out compassion with others comes from balancing the spiritual principle of inflow and outflow. In this passage, Jesus summarizes how to do that. Start with inflow – love the Lord your God – and outflow happens naturally – love your neighbor as yourself.
PRAYER FOCUS: Spend some time asking God to show you if you are living out a balanced life of inflow and outflow. Ask him to show you some ways to enhance inflow and outflow as you go about your day.
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE TODAY: We want to end this week by getting back to simplicity and what matters most – love God, love others and the rest will follow. That’s actually our mission as a church. Ask God to give you clarity on how to live out that mission wherever you go today. Remember, wherever you go and whatever you do, as a follower of Christ, you bring him with you.