My Command Is This; Love Each Other As I Have Loved You
Love Is Kind
JOHN 15:12-13
“This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.
”John 15:12-13 NKJV
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Jesus said, “we are to love one another as He loved us,” and He laid down His life for us that we may live.
Yes, Jesus gave up His life that every single one of us would have opportunity to be saved from the consequences of sin.
Truly, as the Scriptures say, Greater love has no more than this, than to lay down one’s life for a friend.
We, my brothers and sisters in Christ, are to love one another with this sacrificial love that Christ has for us.
God’s love is far more than words or a feeling; God’s love is an action and it comes with a cost.
The truth is, God is the source of our love. “And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. We love each other because he loved us first.”
1 John 4:17-19 NLT
We may not have to die for someone; indeed, Christ died for us all. But there are other ways to practice sacrificial love: Listening, caring, helping, and giving. Make others troubles as important as one’s own and take the appropriate action to help.
Not to boast or put yourself on a pedestal. But for the glory of God.
Love doesn’t gossip nor cause offence; it does not make false accusation, manipulate, reject, abandon, nor rejoice in the downfall of others.
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
I Corinthians 13:1-13 NKJV
If only we could all obey these commandments of Jesus, this world would soon become a better place to live.
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
