Jesus Loves You

If it is true that Jesus loves us, we can love one another because Jesus loved us first and Jesus loves the very best.  I heard a message and the pastor talked on love and how we should love the body of Christ as a family and we should love them in a way that we would stick up for them and never say any unkind things about them.  I know many of us struggle with this at times, but a born-again believer that has the Spirit of the Lord God in them has the capacity to love because God is love and there is no true believer that has an excuse not to love.  If you say you love God and hate your brother or sister you are a liar and the truth in not in you, for how can you love God who you haven’t seen but hate your brother who you have seen.  

Will you have disagreements?  Of course, think of your family members when you were growing up, did you have any fights or arguments?  You probably had many but, when it was all said and done, you stuck up for them when they needed you and they stuck up for you when you needed them because you loved each other.  The body of Christ is huge, it is spread out all over the world, and there are many denominations and you may not agree with everything they teach, but if they are a part of the body of Christ we need to love them.  

Think of anger, bitterness, unforgiveness and slander they all fall under the covering of pride, along with other sins.  Probably these take precedence over most all of the other sins in the church, and that may be why God hates pride in people’s lives and in the body of Christ.  God resists the proud and draws to the humble.  People may be tired of me talking about this subject but it is so important for me to hear and also for others to hear because I have been guilty of these sins and there is no doubt that others have been guilty of these sins also.  

If the body of Christ truly loved one another, the world would see it and desire to have that kind of love, but when they hear us bickering and fussing and fighting, running one another down, why would they want to be a part of the church when they get that from the world.  Remember those outside the church will know we are Christians by our love.  Wouldn’t you like to be known as a person who truly loves, and not a person who just talks the walk but does not walk the talk?  Think about this, Christians taking each other to court in front of unbelieving judges or even believers and hearing them say can’t you people just get along, is a blemish on the church and a slap in the face of God.  

This is another thing we must remember, God hears everything we say and I don’t think it makes Him happy.  Sometimes taking the blame for something we didn’t do is a better option.  Jesus said this to his disciples in John 13:33-35, “Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”

Jesus gave us the strongest example of love when He laid down His life for us.  Think about this, Jesus knew what Judas and Peter were going to do but He never stopped loving them and He didn’t stop them either, they had a free will and He didn’t stand in the way of their decisions.  Seeing Jesus knows all things, He also knows how we will hurt him but that doesn’t stop Him from loving us.  And when we repent and ask for forgiveness, He is faithful to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, praise the Lord!!  So what we need to do is ask the good Lord to help us to love the things that He loves and hate the things that He hates.  If we are commanded to love our enemies, how much more the body of Christ, our brothers and sisters!!  Something to think about and may you have a super day and may the good Lord bless you and yours with His perfect peace love and joy!!