Love Like Jesus.............

Love Like Jesus

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Colossians 3:12-14

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It is fair to say that all of us have the need to love and to be loved. Whether we wish to admit it or not, we all wish for someone who love us, honor, fuss about us, take care of us, and shower us with attention. The truth is true love is worth finding.

Is It possible to love like Jesus? Is it really possible to love our neighbors like ourselves? Are we capable of love so true? I personally have tried to love others deeply but sooner or later I always give up. Either because it took too much energy or because I did not get enough in return. No matter how hard I have tried in the past, in the midst of a disappointment, arguments or/and frustration, I always come to the inevitable conclusion that it was not worth the energy and my best efforts or noble intentions just would not cut it. I want to love and be loved like Christ. To love others like we love ourselves is an order that came directly from the mouth of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 Is it possible to love so truly? Why do you think there are so many single people in the world? All are searching for the one thing they are not even able to offer. Some even believe that they will never find true love and others think they are not worthy of love. I have learned from growing up at church that most people want to be compassionate, good, generous, kind and loving towards each other but only on a "good day." As some point their patience always run thin because the human side of us is intolerant and that can be a major obstacle. My own conclusion is that I can love. I am able to love. I have loved and I love now very deeply. The problem is I am not able to love perfectly. My love tend to diminish or mutate completely when faults, weakness, stubbornness, and imperfections surface. My human instinct (as a person who has previously endured imperfect love) is to run when relationships seem to take a not so pretty turn. Like me, you probably don't like to make yourself vulnerable. I don't want to hurt and refuse to be hurt again and it is that fear of POSSIBLE hurt that makes people hold back and keeps them from experiencing perfect love.

Friend, no matter what you have done and no matter who has told you differently, you are significantly loved. The most magnificent, awesome, loving, caring and thoughtful being to ever existed is interested in a relationship with you and  He's got good intentions. He is  promising marriage. How about that! He knows you completely, and yet He loves you perfectly and eternally. He love you so much that he made himself vulnerable even though he knew for CERTAIN that his love will cost him his life. Jesus did not ask us to do anything He did not do first. He wants us to love as He loves: unconditionally. How are we suppose to do something so impossible? Jesus tells us exactly how to love so truly: “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” Mark 10:27. He is saying that it is impossible for us to love like that on our own but it is possible through Him. He explains it clearly in the parable of the vine and the branches. He says that He is the vine and we are the branches and it is only when attached to him that we will be able to bear fruits. As we mature in faith, we will gradually let go of self and hang on to Christ more. As we trust Christ, we will become more like him and we will become more patient and compassionate with others. Then and only then, we will be able to love truly and unconditionally as Jesus loves.

And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment. The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. Mark 12:30-31 (Amplified Bible)

Father, it's not always easy for me to love others. Thank You for your wonderfully perfect love for me. I pray you will enable me to love others just as you have loved me. Amen!

Praise the Lord!

Psalm 89

I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

² For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

³ I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

⁴ Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

⁵ And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

⁶ For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?

⁷ God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

⁸ O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lordlike unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?

⁹ Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

¹⁰ Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

¹¹ The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

¹² The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.

¹³ Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

¹⁴ Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.

¹⁶ In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

¹⁷ For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

¹⁸ For the Lord is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

¹⁹ Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

²⁰ I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

²¹ With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.

²² The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

²³ And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

²⁴ But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

²⁵ I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

²⁶ He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

²⁷ Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

²⁸ My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

²⁹ His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

³⁰ If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

³¹ If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

³² Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

³³ Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

³⁴ My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

³⁵ Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

³⁶ His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

³⁷ It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

³⁸ But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

³⁹ Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

⁴⁰ Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

⁴¹ All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

⁴² Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

⁴³ Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

⁴⁴ Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

⁴⁵ The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

⁴⁶ How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷ Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

⁴⁸ What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

⁴⁹ Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

ached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

⁵² Blessed be the Lord for evermore. Amen, and Amen.

Praise the Lord!