Love one another
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, see that you also love one another. John 13:34
As believers, we are a product of God’s love! When we received salvation in Christ Jesus, we were born of God who is love, therefore we are born of love. This is not a physical love, but a spiritual, supernatural, unconditional love. The kind of love that God is.
The word love has lost its meaning in today’s world. We “love” everything from pizza to our new cars and homes. While it’s true we may really enjoy these things, to say we love them belittles the significance of what love truly is. God is love and He has put His love in us to love other people not to love things. Love can only be for someone you have interaction with or a relationship with. Whether it’s your family, friends, or someone with a pressing need, these are the ones we share love with. Love is God so in loving one another, you are showing others the God of love and who He really is.
In today’s passage, Jesus told His disciples that they are to love one another. He had just finished demonstrating to them how to love each other when He washed their feet just a few minutes before. Jesus was showing the disciples that their priority in life was to take care of each other and their fellow believers. He was talking to the people that were in that room then, but He was also talking to all who would be His people in the future. Jesus told them that He wanted them to change their entire focus in life from keeping the commandments of Moses to the new commandment that He gave at the last supper. He didn’t say that they should not keep the law of Moses any longer, He was simply telling them that if they began to love and take care of one another, they would be keeping the law of Mosses in the process.
Think about it. You cannot be loving someone and stealing from them at the same time or killing, coveting and lying. Jesus knew that when people love each other and take care of other’s needs ahead of their own, there would be no selfish and sinful intent in them. 1 John 4:7 says you cannot love God and hate your brother (people). The evidence that you have God in your life shows up in your expressions of love for others.
Today I want to encourage you to consider love. The love that you were born again with. The unconditional eternal love that God chosen to love us with. Then consider how you can put that love into action with other people in your day. Take your focus off of the things you “love” and direct your love toward people that need God’s love. We are God’s expression of love to the world around us right now, so let’s choose today that we will show that love everywhere we go. Our salvation was never meant to be just for us. We have been given a commandment by the head of the church Himself to love and take care of one another. That is our main objective and mission in this life. Just as Jesus was God’s love given to us, let our lives be God’s love given to all people we are with.
Today’s scripture reading: John 13:31-35
31 So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately.
33 Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come,’ so now I say to you.
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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