JHN 13:34-35 NIV
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
This extract will be better appreciated when we compare this to the position we were before grace came. The last of Moses allowed you to take 'an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth'. If someone killed another in error and did not make it to the cities of refuge in time, another was allowed to strike the 'murderer' to death. I wonder where we would be today if that was still the case.
Grace has come and it has reached out with a new rule and example. The law showed no mercy; justice was meted out as deserved. Grace however, has come to show us a new way of life and a higher form of love for other people. There's an example to follow: that of Jesus himself who showed the highest form of love to die in our place so we could enjoy his own kind of life. He didn't wait for us to prove ourselves worthy of his love; He just loved us all the same.
He has shown us an example and He demands compliance. Our lives have to show who we believe in and whose precepts we follow. If I have Jesus in me, then my life must show a new life-focus, a new direction, a new love. This is the loudest message our lives can preach. It is the only language the entire world can relate to, as its expression knows no language, ethnic or tribal backgrounds.
Am I showing this new life? Do I even have the new life living in me? You cannot give what you don't have. You want love? Get the personality of love Himself and watch love expression itself through you to touch the world one life at a time. His time of favour is here.
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