Truly Transforming Love
Read 2 John
2 John 4-6 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 5 And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6 And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
HAS anyone ever written to you to celebrate the love that Jesus gives to you? John’s letter is to a woman with several children. He celebrates that she loves Jesus.
I know this is nothing new to “walk in love”—to love God and others. We’ve heard it since we were pre-schoolers in Sunday School and in other places along the road of life. And John’s other writings are full of this great Christ command. You’ve heard it so often, and you know in your heart it’s what you must do. So, are you “doing the love”?
Loving people who do lousy things, who don’t like you or irritate you is difficult, if not impossible, isn’t it? I’m sure John struggled with this and people tried to kill him, and he lived in exile, too.
What did he know about loving others before Jesus walked into his life? What did he know about loving others as he walked with Jesus and saw people throw rocks at his rabbi? What did he know about love until he saw the Master of Love, love those who hated him and killed him. What did he know about love until he saw the Power of Love change lives, especially his own?
John personally knew Jesus’ great love. Do you?
Pause and Consider: that same transforming, unending love from the Lord of Love is for you, too.
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