John 15:13

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Led by example, pruned to perfection.

John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

Jesus showed us the way to love and live, and he led by example. There is no greater sacrifice for the ones you love than to take the ultimate one for them so they can live. Christ and the disciples (except John) took the ultimate sacrifice. So have many others. Is there any question Christ loves us? Any question God loves us? Do you love God that much? Do you love others that much? Were we not strangers to the disciples, yet they laid down their lives for us to spread the gospel?

What are you willing to do to ensure your friends live? Are you willing to sacrifice everything to ensure they live? Who are your friends? Are they not the same as our neighbors described in the story of the Samaritan?

Lots of questions, only one answer that works. “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you” (v12). Sacrificial love. Serving love. Joyful love. Faithful love. Powerful, unwavering love.

Christ warns us that there are consequences to this behavior. We’ll be pruned to be more productive (v2), while if we’re not productive, we’ll be cut off and tossed into the fire. Either way, it’s gonna be disruptive.

Be disrupted today. Be bold in your faith, carry the love and joy of Christ in your heart as your guiding light. “This is to my father’s Glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” v8

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I Love The Father, Son and Holy Spirit and the blessings He has poured into my life. I pray that I live a life that glorifies Him in all I do, but I fail every day, many, many, many times. I have come here through brokenness, a trail of pain and broken promises that I've created through my self centeredness, self will and arrogance. For those I've hurt, please forgive me for what I did. Those things that I remember I am truly sorry I did them. I wish I could undo them. I can't. I use these lessons as motivation to be a builder, to take those experiences and hopefully keep someone else out of their own similar experiences. I love my wife, my children, my family, my friends, my strangers, and those the world would like to dismiss as an unfortunate error messing up worldly perfection. I get frustrated with all of the above too, for I am broken, not like God. Lord, give me your wisdom, your patience, and knowledge of your will for me and the strength to carry that out in all I do. I believe we have work to do while we are here and need to be actively engaged in allowing God to work through us. A Christian is someone who does what The Father, Son and Holy Spirit calls them to do, a builder not a taker, a conduit not a pinnacle, humble and serving. Micah 6:8 Matthew 25:31-46