Love One Another

 

John 15: 9-17

As The Father Has Loved Me

 ⁹ “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. ¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. ¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.

It seems like we just read this passage,(and we did), but we can't reflect on it enough.  The Father's love knows no bounds; Jesus showed us that love by the total gift of himself.  He was not accepted by all, obviously, as the cross testifies, but knowing that, he still gave his all.  We find some people easy to love, they are receptive and giving, genuine and humble.  But there are others who are self-centered and bullish.  These are the ones who need our love the most.  May our reflections on these verses help us to continue loving them despite the rebuffs from them we might encounter.

Bro. Rene