I wrote the other day about love as an order, a command. For Christians it's not an option - we must love others, even our enemies. Because Christ first loved us.
But what does that look like. Knowing we should love, and actually loving are two different things.
Well, it's actually more simple than you think. In the words of old school DC Talk, luv is a verb.
You act it out.
Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for a friend.
We often think of that verse in terms of dying for a friend. We say it - would you be willing to die for another person out of love? Like Jesus did.
But Jesus didn't only die for us, he also lived for us. And he lives for us.
Dying for someone out of love is almost a piece of cake compared to actually living for others out of love. Dying you only have to do once. Living is every single day.
What can you do right now to show love? Act it out. Even if you don't feel it, yet.
Peace and joy. (Romans 5:1-11)
Jessie.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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