Day: April 3, 2025

Intro:

God never meant for us to do life alone.

From the garden to the upper room, from the wilderness wanderings to the early church, Scripture beats with a shared rhythm: — do life together. You won’t find a lone ranger version of faith in the New Testament. What you will find is a chorus of two simple words, sung again and again: — one another.

Love one another.  

Encourage one another.  

Forgive one another.  

Carry one another’s burdens.

Fifty-plus times, in fact. As if God knew we’d forget. As if He wanted to make sure we understood: faith isn’t just vertical—it’s horizontal too. How we treat each other says a lot about how well we know the One who first loved us.

Jesus didn’t leave behind a rulebook. He left behind an example. He knelt with a towel. He ate with sinners. He touched lepers. He wept at tombs and washed dirty feet. These “one another” commands? They’re not just instructions. They’re invitations to live like Him.

This series is a walk through ten of those invitations. With each step, we’ll learn how love looks when it wears work gloves. When it listens. When it shows up. When it stays.

Join me tomorrow for this important series on our relationship with God and “ONE ANOTHER.”

I’m Lonnie Davis, and these are thoughts worth thinking.

Our devotional thought comes from Psalm 41:4.  

“I said, ‘O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You.'”

It’s just one sentence. But what a sentence it is.

David doesn’t dress it up. He doesn’t make excuses or try to hide behind fancy words. He simply says what every heart needs to say at some point: “I’ve sinned. I need healing. I need grace.”

There’s no grand speech here. No deal-making. No list of promises to do better next time. Just honesty. Just humility. Just a soul that knows it can’t fix itself.

This little verse models how to come back to God.

We all stumble. We all fall. But the beauty of God’s mercy is that He doesn’t wait for us to climb our way back up before He listens. He listens the moment our hearts turn toward Him. Confession isn’t a punishment—it’s the pathway to healing.

Every person should confess in prayer.

Not because God doesn’t already know—but because we need to say it. We need to unload the guilt. We need to come home.

And when we do, we find what David found: grace, healing, and the open arms of a God who loves us still.

So, take a moment. Speak honestly. God’s not looking for perfect words. Just a sincere heart.

I’m Lonnie Davis, and these are thoughts worth thinking.