Meaningful Life
Date: Apr. 1, 2024
John 13:34-35
34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Bible Reading: John 13:34-35
Take Home Point:
”We Can Change Our Community with True Love”
The Christian life is all about relationships. It’s God’s original design for our personal growth, which then translates into church growth. Loving and caring for one another is a powerful evangelistic tool in our hands that can be used for the glory of God and for the expansion of his kingdom. According to Jesus in John 13:34-35;
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
No successful church in any part of the world was built by the efforts of a single man or by a few individuals. All successful churches have been built by the active, intentional efforts of committed believers fully involved in the work of the ministry through the sharing of the gospel message to unsaved and unchurched people. It takes love for you to want to reach out to someone who does not have a relationship with Jesus.
The early disciples of Jesus reaped outstanding harvest of souls because they practiced the kind of love that Jesus preached while doing ministry on earth. I would share one example of Jesus’s love before diving into our main text.
In Luke 5:12-15, in this passage of the book of Luke, we see Jesus display an act of love as he heals the man full of leprosy. Lepers in Biblical time where outcasts, they were forbidden from associating or mingling with regular people. It was so bad that anyone caught relating to them was banished.
In this passage, we see Jesus showing kindness, mercy, and love to this man whom nobody in society was allowed to hang out with. He went ahead and touched the forbidden man and healed him. We see Jesus’ act of love again in (Luke 7:11-17) as healed the man with a withered hand.
Jesus allowed love, mercy, and grace to ride above man-made conventions. Conventions would have stopped these men from getting their healing and deliverance, but Jesus true love overrode man’s convention. This takes me to our text for today.
Today, Jesus is asking us as his followers to not only emulate him, but we must be prepared at any time to lay down our lives for each other. Our love for one another and the unsaved lives must be without limits.
We observed Easter yesterday to celebrate the resurrection of our Savior Jesus and the love that made him go to the cross for our sins to be washed away and forgiven. May we also extend the same love to others.
Happy New Month Beloved.
Pastor David Kachi Jite