Love One Another

John 13:34-35 says: “A new commandment I give you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Jesus talks about us loving one another. Just as he himself loved us, so we too must show that love to one another. It is very important for us to have a good relationship with one another, and when we love, something amazing happens – one is loved back, beyond measure.

Matthew 9: 10-11: “And as he sat at the table in the house, behold many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?’”

Here is the Son of God, who lived a clean and perfect life here on earth. He understood what love was really like. He saw that tax collectors and sinners really needed the love and care that came from him. Here is a challenge for us, we must likewise show love to everyone we come into contact with. It could be our neighbours, workmates, old school friends, street kids, the homeless, the sick and all kinds of people. The whole gospel is tied together in one great name, and that is love. Paul in Corinthians says, “Hope, faith and love abide, but the greatest of these is love.” Love shall continue even in the Kingdom to come.

Luke 6:32-35 speaks about the love that our Father has shown to all mankind, and we have seen how Christ loves the un-loveable and even died for us all. We can go to our Sunday service of worship and be inspired to live and love as Christ has done for us all. When we read God’s word we can see His great plan and purpose for all mankind, yet we can find it difficult to love those whom God and Jesus Christ love.

To love our neighbour is about being compelled to love them regardless of how they love, or not. Let us show the same kind of love to those around us that God and Jesus show us. We should be obligated to love those the world has termed unworthy of love. We must choose to love as a child loves, being completely open, without judgement and allowing ourselves to be vulnerable (Matthew 18:4) – not to stop loving even if others may have stopped loving us.

“And the King will answer them, ‘truly I say to you, as you did to one of these my brethren you did it for me.’” (Matthew 25:40)

May we show love to others just as God and His Son Jesus have loved us. God bless us all as we journey Zionwards.

Love

There is no greater love than the love that holds on where there seems nothing left to hold on to.

“Love never fails ...”

I Corinthians 13:8

Bro Gideon Hankomone (Mazabuka,Zambia)