How well you and I learn to truly love God and love others will really be the measure of our fruitfulness in the kingdom of God. There is one standard in His kingdom. Love. Sincere and genuine love, not masked in any way. This kind of love alone will change the world. Jesus changed the course of history by demonstrating love in a way that would forever become the example of how we are to live.
Jesus taught his disciples a lot of things, but most importantly He taught them about love and compassion for the sick, hurting, broken, and the outcast. Jesus always looked through a different lens. He was not concerned with the outward distractions that the pharisees were loaded down with. Jesus was able to say before the crowd of witnesses ready to cast stones at the woman caught in adultery, "Let him who is without sin throw the first stone." God kind of love is really different from the world kind of love, which is mostly lust and based on how one feels moment to moment.
"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13
There is no greater love than that of truly laying your life down for one another. This refers to the kind of humility that considers others better than oneself. This refers to putting someone else's needs before mine, and helping them fulfill the desires of their heart. When we spend ourselves on loving others it will be difficult, and sometimes most inconvenient.
Love is not efficient. Love will need to happen at the wrong times, the times when you feel most like...not loving. Love will always give you the opportunity to lay down your life. Love does not take advantage of, or manipulate. Love will hold no strings attached. Love will know no limits.
"Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth." 1 John 3:18
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