John 13:35
This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
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As people of the flesh, we would always connect “love” with something worldly. When we hear, “love one another”, we would think of it as loving, that is erotically, every person (man and woman) that you think is attractive. Until we end up with a lot of “love-child”, that most of us cannot even afford to provide care and love to.
But the love that Jesus wants us to give to one another has a deeper meaning, a love that is truly coming from the heart. Love that is willing to sacrifice as what Jesus did when He died on the cross.
“Love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
In the past, the general trend was to do good to those who do good to you, and to only love those who loves you. It is new because Jesus calls people to pray for those who hate them and to do better things to them. He even pushed this further by commanding us – “love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return”. In so doing, He promised us the rewards of Heaven.
It is really difficult for us to do this but always remember that the Lord, Himself, has not hated us even though we are all sinners. In fact, He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.
We are to love one another as Christ Himself loved us, even dying on the cross so we may be saved and live eternally.
Start living your life in love. Unless you start loving, you will not really experience true love in return.
Lord Jesus, I love You for You loved us first. And out of this love, You gave your life so all our sins will be forgiven and give us the opportunity again to join You in Heaven together with God and the Holy Spirit. Bless me, that I receive love by the loving service that I give. Amen+
I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God.
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