Devo Fuel: Love Comprehensively
12Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
As love between people must reign in the faith community, so also must the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. According to Jewish psychology, the heart is the location of volition; one's entire life is guided by what takes place in the heart. If the peace of Christ rules the heart, then every decision made and every action taken will have the quality of peace. Yet Paul expresses this prayer for peace as a corporate prospect: as members of one body you were called to peace. So love characterizes the community's public life, and peace characterizes its internal life. This being so, every collective decision and action that comes from the community will have the character of peace.
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