DO IT ANYWAY The “love chapter,”, 1 Corinthians 13, describes love as patient, kind, not envious, believing the best, enduring, not resentful, and so on. It doesn’t say that love condones and accepts everything others do. Nor does it say that love lets people run roughshod over it, nor that it gives them everything they want. Love is not gullible. At times, in other words, love is more of a choice than it is an emotion. Nowhere is this more evident than with the sacrifice Jesus Christ made for us. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.” (John 3: 16-17) Jesus so loved the world that he gave himself for us. “No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” (John 10:18) His motive was love. But those he loved rejected him and killed him. We’re unworthy of such love. But JESUS did it anyway – FOR YOU AND FOR ME. He loved us in spite of our selfishness, our lack of appreciation and our rejection Was it easy for him? WE CAN LEARN TO LOVE GOD MORE WHEN WE RECOGNIZE THE EXTENT OF GOD’S GRACE
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:29:48 +0000
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