My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.
John 15:12-14 NKJV
The best example of love in the Bible is Jesus Himself. The Bible says, ''
Who, being in very nature God,did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage, Philippians 2:6. Jesus left it all, gave it all and came to be just like us, he was tempted in every way just like us but he did not sin. He did all of that for the sake of you and me that we may be saved from sin and hell.
Jesus commanded us to love each other as the way he loved us. Before Jesus died on the cross the Bible says we were enemies of God ( Rom 5:10); this means before the eyes of God we were His enemies because of sin but this did not prevent Jesus from loving us. Just imagine if someone is your worst enemy, who can do anything to see you down and even if it means to kill you as they did to our precious Lord; but still you love him to death with all your heart and you are more than willing to do even impossible to gain him back.
This is what Jesus did there on the cross. He loved the unlovable sinners who are you and me and He wants us too to do the same to others. True love is not in words but in deeds, can not seen in the time of joy but can be manifested in the time of need and hardships. It is easy to say you love people but ask yourself why you do not forgive that person who hurt you? why do you still keep that enmity with that fellow co-worker?
This morning, God wants you to remember your first love. Those days when you wanted to be like Jesus, walk like Jesus, forgive and forget like Jesus, speak like Jesus, understand like Jesus, pray like Jesus and all in all love like Jesus. You did not go in the house of God with unforgiveness in you,( Matthew 5:23-24). It's about time to start loving like Jesus, to lay your life that other people may know God and be saved from their sins. This is the hour for you to to say no to hate and yes to love.
****Morning Prayer****
Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....
Heavenly Father, I thank You for your Word. Now am asking that You may help me to love like Jesus, to help me to forgive and to let go all the people who hurt me in the past. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
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