I’m writing this on the heels of listening to a message that brought deep conviction. Do my words and actions always portray His agape love? The word ‘love’ in 1 Corinthians 13 is agape. I encourage you to read it, inserting agape instead of love. Verse 13 says, “And now abide faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

I love conviction. It messes up my life. It shakes me out of complacency that I didn’t know I had. It reaches down into the ruts that I didn’t know I was stuck in. It brings course correction. When we embrace the Holy Spirit’s conviction, it keeps our feet on His path, so that we won’t get derailed down the road.

Psalm 119:2 says, “Blessed are those who keep (guard) His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!” Complacency, ruts, lethargy, hidden sins, etc., block our capacity to be single-minded and wholehearted.