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I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves]. John 13:34-35 AMPC
Love was so important to Jesus that He quoted directly from the book of Leviticus when He named loving your neighbors as yourself as one of the two greatest commandments (Mark 12:31). But not long before He died on a wooden cross, He instructed His followers to take their love for others to a whole new level.
God’s commandment to love was hardly new, but Jesus’ five words—“as I have loved you”—placed emphasis on loving fellow Christians by following His example of selfless, sacrificial love. It would have been one thing that Jesus simply said, “Love one another,” but He set the perfect example of love for all to see.
The great nineteenth-century English preacher Charles Spurgeon once said, “We are to love our neighbor as ourselves, but we are to love our fellow-Christians as Christ loved us, and that is far more than we love ourselves.” So love your brothers and sisters in Christ—selflessly, sacrificially…unshakably.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, show me ways—today and every day—I can express my love for my Christian brothers and sisters. Thank You for loving me first so that I can love others.
Love was so important to Jesus that He quoted directly from the book of Leviticus when He named loving your neighbors as yourself as one of the two greatest commandments (Mark 12:31). But not long before He died on a wooden cross, He instructed His followers to take their love for others to a whole new level.
God’s commandment to love was hardly new, but Jesus’ five words—“as I have loved you”—placed emphasis on loving fellow Christians by following His example of selfless, sacrificial love. It would have been one thing that Jesus simply said, “Love one another,” but He set the perfect example of love for all to see.
The great nineteenth-century English preacher Charles Spurgeon once said, “We are to love our neighbor as ourselves, but we are to love our fellow-Christians as Christ loved us, and that is far more than we love ourselves.” So love your brothers and sisters in Christ—selflessly, sacrificially…unshakably.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, show me ways—today and every day—I can express my love for my Christian brothers and sisters. Thank You for loving me first so that I can love others.
