The Holy Ghost through the Apostle Paul
here instructs us to walk in love, in the same manner that Christ loved us. The
high calling of the believers in Christ includes the privilege, honour and
responsibility to demonstrate to one another and beyond reasonable doubt, the
kind and quality of love that they have learned and experienced from Jesus. The
love of Christ is open, manifest, constant, selfless and available to all. When
such qualities are evident in ‘our’ love, we are approximating the example of
Jesus and delivering a true message from heaven to those around us. It is
noteworthy that we do not actually have anything like true love of our own,
that is, in our natural fallen nature. Any love which is morally appropriate,
godly and scripturally correct, is therefore a reflection of what God has
imparted to us, and of what we allow Him to work through us. The best exercise
we can enter into when considering love, is to look to Jesus and observe
closely His pattern of love. The purity, altruism, gentleness and firmness of
His matchless, unparalleled love, strikes our hearts with a sense of reality
and causes us to long to be more like Him! We cannot imitate His Omnipotence,
or His Omniscience and are limited in our physical ability to be in more than
one place at once - but we can all learn to love more like Jesus does and
follow the example He gave us! This is doubtless one of the ways by which we
can most readily emulate the Lord, His manner and life. It is within the reach
of every believer, and every day brings to us ample opportunities to practice
His love. He told us this was His new commandment, the one by which others
would identify us as His true disciples, that we would love one another by the
standard and quality of His love! Even our love for God is quantified and
qualified by the love we hold for each other! I think we can all readily admit
that we are thoroughly challenged by the benchmark He has set for us, and that
we all, even when we have been at this for a while, and may have made some
progress, have yet a long way to go!
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