We should live lives of holy love to Jesus Christ and to our neighbor. Love is not perverse; love is not evil; love is not cruel; love is not wicked; love is not envious; love is not bitter; love is not sinful. His love of His unified righteousness is our covering to us. He is the sweetest and dearest and better then the best. Jesus is more precious to us then ten times ten thousand souls.
Love must be sincere as the New Testament says. Sincere love is hard to find because we live in a corrupt world full of wickedness, evil and cruelty. We ought not to love when it is convenient and easy. We ought to love in the hard ways of life as well. We ought to love when things are not easy. We ought to love our neighbor as ourselves. We should place others before ourselves. We should have a balance of love toward our fellow man and sacrifice. The Bible tells us about love, "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth" (1 John 3:16-18).
We owe love to all people not just our family. We owe love to all people not just to our friends. We may feel that some people do not deserve our love. Love is from divine grace. It is not earned but it is free. Jesus' love is a free gift of love for His people. Love is not homosexual and we are not talking about sexual love. But we are talking about the love that Jesus gave to give us Himself to save us from our sins. In Matthew 5:44; 46-47 we are told to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. We are to extend ourselves in loving our neighbor because it is what Jesus did when He said at death in the agony of His Cross, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." He had love when there was only hatred for Him. He had love when all kinds of people nailed Him to the Cross. His prayer became effectual after Peter gave his sermon because people became to repent to save themselves from their wicked generation.
Do you have the love of repentance? Do you share in this divine love of Christ? We also ought to love faith, hope and love but the greater is love. Loving Jesus means we stand in Christ to God's glory. Do you have ant affection for Jesus? Do you have any love for Him? We ought to love others because by loving we love God in His service. You may think you are devoid of God's love. Remember there is no sinner so far apart from Christ and His love. You have the Spirit with the Word of God that changes hearts. Listen to the Word of God and hear the Word preached. Surrender your love to Jesus. May God grant all kinds of people to love Him and love others. Amen.
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