Greater Love
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence (Vincent van Gogh).
When left to our emotions, love can be fickle. The emotion can come and go based on how we felt waking up this morning. Or whether the sun is out or not. Our emotional state is so fleeting that it becomes difficult to understand the concept of love. Humanity has wrestled with it for centuries. The entertainment industry has continually put out products to let us “know” what true love looks like. But what if love was meant to be something different? What if love wasn’t meant to be something that can be given and taken away or even lost? That the sum of our love cannot be found in flowers and chocolate. The truth for us today is that Jesus Christ showed us a better way to understand what love is. He said in John’s account of the gospel to 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 (John 15:12-13).
Would we be willing to show that kind of love? Have you experienced that kind of love? The apostle John wrote 3 letters after his Gospel. In his first he said this: Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us (1 John 4:7-12).
Maybe you feel lost and hurt today. Maybe even struggling to get through the day. Or even finding it difficult to love those around you. The Good News today is that love doesn’t stop because of how we feel. Love comes from God because He is the very essence of love. And He sent His Son to show the greatest love of all for you and for me. To lay down His life so that we might live.
Who paid for all of our sin? Nobody but Jesus. Who rescued me from that grave? Yahweh, Yahweh. Who gets the glory and praise? Nobody but Jesus. Who rescued me from that grave? Yahweh, Yahweh. Who gets the glory and praise? Nobody but Him(Phil Wickham, This is Our God).
When left to our emotions, love can be fickle. The emotion can come and go based on how we felt waking up this morning. Or whether the sun is out or not. Our emotional state is so fleeting that it becomes difficult to understand the concept of love. Humanity has wrestled with it for centuries. The entertainment industry has continually put out products to let us “know” what true love looks like. But what if love was meant to be something different? What if love wasn’t meant to be something that can be given and taken away or even lost? That the sum of our love cannot be found in flowers and chocolate. The truth for us today is that Jesus Christ showed us a better way to understand what love is. He said in John’s account of the gospel to 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 (John 15:12-13).
Would we be willing to show that kind of love? Have you experienced that kind of love? The apostle John wrote 3 letters after his Gospel. In his first he said this: Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us (1 John 4:7-12).
Maybe you feel lost and hurt today. Maybe even struggling to get through the day. Or even finding it difficult to love those around you. The Good News today is that love doesn’t stop because of how we feel. Love comes from God because He is the very essence of love. And He sent His Son to show the greatest love of all for you and for me. To lay down His life so that we might live.
Who paid for all of our sin? Nobody but Jesus. Who rescued me from that grave? Yahweh, Yahweh. Who gets the glory and praise? Nobody but Jesus. Who rescued me from that grave? Yahweh, Yahweh. Who gets the glory and praise? Nobody but Him(Phil Wickham, This is Our God).
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