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Greater Love - John 15:13
Love... The
one thing we all need. The one thing we are desperate for is love. God is that
love. God is a holy, holy, holy lover. Jesus displays God’s love
relationally and personally. I can trust in God’s love because of Jesus. When I
am faced with the perfection of God and His love, my own capacity to love is
just pale and weak. In fact, the difference between my ability to love and
God’s ability to love is so vast. Jesus’s love is seen throughout His perfect
life, His perfect death and His perfect, tremendous, victorious resurrection.
Jesus freely laid down His life and exchanged, not just heaven for earth, but
heaven for death. The cost was massive but the gift of His love is free. Greater love has no one than this: than to lay down his own life for his
friends. Jesus did this for me.
My debt Jesus paid, but my
debt to Him is eternal. This debt is a debt of love and of loving service.
Jesus’ love compels me to love. His love softens my heart. I need it every day
to soften me. There is no way I can love God and love others without this love.
That is His desire for me and my life each day. I fail in my love for Jade, for
Hannah, for Joel, for my parents, for my in-laws, for my relatives, for my colleagues,
for my friends and for Jesus. ‘Lord Jesus, please help me today. I turn from myself
and turn to you. Please give me a fresh filling of your love through your Holy
Spirit. Help me to love like you. Help me die to myself. Help me have faith in
you throughout the situations of today. Help me lay down my life. Amen.’
Application: I will lay down and
put away distractions of technology for my own personal use for the rest of the
week during the day. I will also have wee dates for an hour or two during the
week with Jade, Hannah and Joel. I will try and do the same with the guys. Through
wise use of my time, I can show love to God and to the people around me whom I
care about so deeply.
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