“In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
Have you ever received something you didn’t deserve? How did it make you feel? It always makes me feel bad. I know I don’t deserve it, but I get it anyway. It’s just not right. It makes me want to go out and give it to someone else. Maybe they deserve it more than me.
How do you feel about Jesus’ gift to you? We didn’t love God, but He loved us so much that He sent Jesus to die for us. That is undeserved. It makes me feel bad. It also makes me feel free.
Because of God’s amazing love, I am free to love others in the same way. I’m commanded to love others in the same way.
Loving those that we don’t think deserve it can be very hard. It can almost be impossible. But with God, the impossible becomes possible. It’s possible because God did the same thing for us. Actually, He did so much more for us.
So why can’t we do the same thing for others?
When we love others as Jesus loved us, we give them just a shadow of the love of Jesus. We’re being image-bearers for our Lord and Savior.
Make it a point to show love to everyone, no matter what the circumstances. No matter how unlovely they are to you, Jesus died for them, too. They deserve to see real love in action, and it might help to point them to Jesus.
CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLE: A Christian loves others no matter who they are or what they’ve done. Christ did the same for us, and we show His love when we do this.
Here’s a set of verses to meditate on today: Hosea 1
Prayer: Father, help me to love out of the depths of Your love. I pray that you help me to see people as You see them, and that I can love them as You love them. In Christ’s name, amen.
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