WOV #765, “Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us With Your Love”
Devotion
What hymn reminds you of service? For me it’s Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love. The refrain ends with these words: “show us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.”
Neighbors are from God? How can that be? Could that include the neighbors who let their dogs run loose on your lawn? The neighbor who keeps borrowing things and not returning them? The neighbor with the noisy car? What could God be giving you through your neighbors? You might respond: a pain in the neck or sleepless nights.
Try this thought on – perhaps you neighbor is God’s way of giving you the opportunity to do God’s work of caring, feeding, giving comfort or spreading the gospel.
Prayer
Gracious God, open my eyes to see the places of need in my neighborhood. Amen.