Thursday, March 5, 2015

John 15:12
"These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made
full. This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you."
Is it possible for us to be like Jesus and love like he did? Imagine a world where the first thing on
the list would be, Find out how my neighbor is doing today and I if there is anything I could do
to make his/her life a little better?
Jesus didnt seem to mind being around lepers, prostitutes, the sick, the poor, people in need. He
didnt seem to have any requirements about how someone dressed, their personal hygiene, how
pretty they were, what their abilities were or how much wealth they had obtained. He didnt
care if they were gentile, Jew or Roman. He didnt care if they were a man, woman, tax collector
or soldier. He really didnt have any requirements other than that they were a person.
Questions we really need to analyze to figure out if we are truly loving as Jesus did are:
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How do we wish to be loved?

How difficult would it be to love others as we wish to be loved?
What have we learned throughout our lives that prevent us from loving like Jesus and
how do we unlearn these things?
How do we look at someone outside our own family and see and treat them as if they
were a cherished son, daughter, mother, father?
What is preventing us from seeing others not as they appear or act, but as a person of
God?

What would the world be like if we were all able to love as Jesus did?
K. P.

WWJD?