KEY SCRIPTURE: John 15:12 KJV” This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.”

The Lord said to His disciples that, loving one another is His commandment to them. Well, He added that they should love just as He had loved them.

 Now, how did Jesus demonstrate or what kind of love did Jesus show to His disciples? We can see this in the proceeding verse. John 15:13 KJV” Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” 

The Lord Jesus described that the kind of love He wanted them to demonstrate towards each other, was self-sacrificing love. This kind of love is not within the normal human experience. It is supernatural love. Although it is not the natural human love, our call into Christ, and subsequently living in the Spirit makes this love very possible. Our identification with Jesus through being baptised by the Spirit into Him identifies us fully with His death, burial, resurrection and even glorification (Rom 6:3-5). Through our baptism into Christ, we were crucified with Him (Gal2:20). We can live out selfless or self-sacrificing love because we died with Him. The Lord, by asking us to love as He had loved us is asking us to love the greater love way (John 15:13).

This kind of love is our greatest weapon to win our world. It is a kind of love that sets the Holy Spirit to fully function through us. Christian homes will not see the level of stress and tension that is assailing most Christian marriages if we are to love as the Lord instructed. A lot of Christian youth have not encountered Jesus in a practical way, because their parents are not manifesting Jesus’ love. The worse part is to find Christian parents at each other’s throats.

Dear child of God, our Lord Jesus set an example and also made make it possible for us to live, His love way, through His death and resurrection. Please acknowledge your crucifixion with Jesus, and settle it once and for all that you are dead to the flesh and so, the life that you are presently living on earth is the Spirit of Jesus Himself living through you. That unforgiveness is alien to you. The envy, bitterness or any of the mundane life are old nature which you are trying to force on your true self. From today, repent of any old behaviours and accept your true nature, the Christlike person you have become.

THOUGHT: OUR BIRTH INTO CHRIST HAS QUALIFIED US TO LIVE THE JESUS LOVE

FURTHER STUDIES

Gal 2:20 KJV” I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me”.

1 John 4:17 KJV” Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world”.