
DIGGING DEEPER DEVOTIONAL FEB. 9, 2026








I do not know what it is like where you live, but here in the USA, it is becoming increasingly difficult to walk the divide between Liberal and Conservative, Democrat and Republican while maintaining a Christian lifestyle…at least for my part.

I have never identified strongly with either party, and though I always considered myself a Conservative, at least culturally, I am finding it more and more difficult to live a hard line along with what is currently being called Conservativism. Nor can I call myself a Liberal.
During this year’s 21 Days of Fasting and Prayer, I have been hearing the words, “Find the third path”. I have been wondering what this third path looks like, where it leads and about how to walk it. Over the next weeks I am going to be journalling some of my thoughts here about what the third pathway is and what it looks like.
We just put up this new piece of Writing on the Wall at Cornerstone. It is something our church board put together, and I think it is as good an onramp to this discussion as anything else.


Well, folks today is day 20 of our 21 days of fasting and prayer. We are on meditation 16. So I will be quickly catching up to finish these meditations over the next 24 hours. Here is meditation number 16 from 1 John.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
| 1 John 4:7-12 (Source: Equip the Called) | Theme: God is Love |
| 1. Love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. | |
| 2. God showed His love for you by sending His only Son into the world so that you might live through Him. | |
| 3. If God so loved you, you also ought to love one another; God abides in you when you love. |
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