The Way He Loves You

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. (John 13:34 NKJV)

There is a way the world trains us to love people. The world teaches you to love your friends but hate your enemies. The more imperfections the world see in you, the less they'll accept you or be favourable towards you. If you're considered weak, burdensome or a liability in the eyes of the world, you will be left out of a lot of good things, because they seek their own well-being before others.Beloved, this is contrary to the way God shows love.





Jesus, before He left the world, gave this commandment, "love one another; as I have loved you". This tells us that there is a way we ought to love one another; that is the same way He loved us. The question therefore is; How did He love us? Before we can express the God-kind of love towards others, we first need to understand how He demonstrated that same love towards us. Romans 5:6-8 reveals a great deal about the way He loved and still loves you. For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (NKJV).

From this scripture, you can see that God loved you when you were an unbeliever - when you took the stance of an enemy against Him. As his enemy, rather than stay away from you like the world would do, He drew near to you. You were undeserving of His love, mercy and forgiveness, yet that did not hinder him from reaching out to you in love. He was proactive with His love; He didn't wait for you to initiate love towards Him, but went after you. And whether or not you reciprocated did not matter to Him.

God loved you when it was inconvenient to do so -that is when you were imperfect and difficult to love. He didn't decide to withhold His love, mercy, and kindness from you until you became perfect. He showed love to you in spite of your behaviour and was patient with you to change. Rather than abandon you like others would have done, when you were still without strength, when you were a liability and a burden to Him, He stuck with you regardless. He demonstrated his love when He could benefit nothing from associating with you.

Jesus came to demonstrate this same kind of love to the world, and to His twelve disciples while He walked with them for about three years. And when it was time to leave them, the bible records that "having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end" (John 13:1 NKJV). You see, Jesus' love towards His disciples lasted till the end. His love did not wane or expire. It withstood the test of offence, betrayal, rejection, trials and other challenges, yet it did not fail.

Beloved, this is the standard of love which has been set for us to express to one another. The more you truly understand the various ways God has shown His love towards you, the more you'll see how you ought to love those around you.

Study Scriptures: John 15:13, 1Corth.13:4-8,  1Tim.1:13-16, 1John3:16, 1John 4:19

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