A new command

Jesus said this in John: 13:34 (CSB)

"I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.

We have missed the mark Jesus set, and still are missing the mark, Jesus said to love one another, as I have loved you.

What does that mean?

1st-Jesus loves us because we exist and He is love, no other reason is needed.

His love is not based on where we were born, to what family we are born into, what we do for a living, how good we are, or how bad we are or what we can do for Him.

Jesus doesn’t love us based on how much money we give, how much we time we serve Him, how many times we go to church, how many times we pray or read His word, no these things show how much we love Him.

Jesus said to love others as He loves us, so we should love others simply because they exist, and because they exist Jesus loves them, He died for them as He did us, He forgave and forgives all our sins and shortcomings, He tells us the truth about ourselves, where sin leads us and how it separates us from God the Father, He reminds us He is the only way, the truth and the life, and that no one get’s to the Father except through Him. He let’s us make choices on how we respond, He rejoices when we choose Him, and is saddened when mankind rejects Him. 

Jesus never came to condemn the world, nor did He come to condone the world’s behavior, He came to seek and save the lost, He loves us so much He left all He knew, gave all He had including His life so we could be drawn to God and have hope for today and tomorrow.

Do we love others this way? 

Are we willing to leave all we know, give all we have, including our lives to seek and save the lost?

All we have to do is step out our front doors and look around and we will find them!

Are you willing to love others as Jesus loves you?

Ask Him today to help you love others this way.

God’s word says this:

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.”

Romans 3:23-24 CSB

“For while we were still helpless, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly. For rarely will someone die for a just person — though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die. But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 5:6-8 CSB

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.”

John 3:16-18 CSB

“Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

John 14:6 CSB

“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.””

Luke 19:10 CSB

“Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him. Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.”

1 John 4:7-11 CSB