There is no greater love than this…that a man be willing to lay down his life for his friends.
Do you have a love like that living in your heart? It doesn’t mean that you have to be killed in order to prove you love your friends. It means you’d be willing to do that if things ever got to that point. I pray you never have to face a circumstance like that. But I also pray you’d be able if and when the time comes. And I pray that for me, too.
We Christians have an awesome example to go by. Jesus, who never committed a sin or a crime, became the only person ever to be found innocent of his charges and then sentenced to death. He didn’t do what He did because He had no other choice. When they came to seize Him and take him to face his charges, He let them know they couldn’t possibly do this without His willingness. He could have merely prayed and legions of angels would come to His aid.
But He didn’t do that. Because He had chosen to take on flesh and bone to become fully man in order to be able to give His life for His friends. Imagine…eons and eons past He had always been undying Spirit. And yet, His love for and toward us was and is so great, He became a man, then became sin, then actually endured a tortuous death that should have been for us.
And there is no greater love than this.
I don’t know about you, but I want to be on His team. I want to get to know how anyone could love me that much. If God, who created all the heavens and earth and lowered Himself to our level in order to give us eternal life, is FOR us…
…then, it doesn’t matter who’s against us. They’re inconsequential in comparison.
God says that tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, and sword will not separate us from Him. And the Apostle Paul was convinced that “…neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Truly there is no greater love than this.
In Christian Love…
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