A COMMANDMENT FROM JESUS

“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.”

John 15:12 KJV

When I was a teenager, my Mother used to say to me “It doesn’t matter what I say, you’re going to do what you want to do”.  I think that Jesus might say the same thing to us.  He has told us to love one another like He loves us yet many times we don’t do it.  He didn’t give us an option, He gave us a commandment.

Can we honestly say that we love one another as Jesus has commanded us to love?  Jesus loves us even when we hurt Him.  Our Saviour’s love for us is an unconditional love.  His love for us does not depend on what we do or don’t do because not only does Jesus give us love, He is love, unconditional love.

There would be less violence if we would start loving one another unconditionally.  It is no wonder at all that there is so much violence and hatred.  It is because people feel unloved and unwanted.  It is time that we who claim to be Christians make a special effort to spread the love of Jesus by our actions.

We also need to speak encouraging and loving words to one another.  When we criticize people and say hateful and sarcastic words to them we might as well take a knife and plunge it deep into their heart because it hurts just as much as if we had stabbed them with a knife.  Let’s start loving instead of hating. 

May God help us to love one another unconditionally as Jesus has commanded us to love each other.  What about Jesus?  Do we love Him unconditionally or just when He does something we ask Him to do?  Jesus is not a puppet and we can’t pull His strings.  He does things for us because He loves us.

Joanne Lowe

October 5, 2016