Good morning.
Pop songs, movies, and books shape the way we think about love. Attraction, emotion, romance, and sentiment colour how we expect it to be.
When Jesus told His followers that they’re to love the way He does, He wasn’t talking about what we find in popular culture. Jesus gave them the ultimate image of self-sacrificing love when He said: "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends."
(John 15:13)
The delightful feelings of “being in love” are distant cousins to the self-giving action that Jesus was referring to. The kind of love He was referring to looks far more like the sacrificial service of a caregiver changing a soiled adult nappy. It looks like a family opening their home to foster children. Or like a woman interceding daily in prayer for her prodigal child.
This sacrificial love is humbly given by countless modern heroes of the faith every day as they lay down their hopes and dreams to meet the needs of the sick, helpless, and broken among us.
Jesus is our role model. When we serve others sacrificially, we show love the way He did.
Blessings.
Mike and Daphne
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