Love each other. John 13:34

Posted on by Just broken

John 13:34 (NLT)
34 “So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.”

Matthew 19:17-19 (NLT)
17 “Why ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. But to answer your question—if you want to receive eternal life, keep the commandments.”
18 “Which ones?” the man asked.
And Jesus replied: “‘You must not murder. You must not commit adultery. You must not steal. You must not testify falsely. 19 Honor your father and mother. Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Is there much doubt about how we’re to live?

Look again. You should love. Each other. All of the each others. Everyone you know and don’t know. Everyone you agree with 100%, everyone you disagree with 100%. Those who love you with all their heart, mind, and soul, and those who hate you with all their heart, mind, and soul. Love each other. Every other.

Just as I have loved you. We know who Christ loved – everyone, even the “unlovable”, the outcasts, the (in todays vernacular) marginalized. Especially the “unlovable”, the outcasts, the marginalized.

Just as I have loved you. There is so much depth and meaning to those words when you understand the chasm between God’s love and ours, between his goodness and ours, between his wisdom and ours, between his plan and ours.

Proverbs 25:28 (NLT)
28 A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.

Love each other. It’s how we’re taught to live. Just as I have loved you.

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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