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How does God teach love?

Jesus said that no greater love can be expressed than the willingness to lay down your life for another person. This is exactly what Jesus did. In showing us the greatest gift of self-sacrifice through the cross, Jesus teaches us how to love like God loves.

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Lee Keele

What is the second greatest command? If you’re a believer, a student of Scripture, it’s possible that you said something like “Love your neighbor as yourself.” If you did, you’d be right - almost. Jesus himself said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ” (Matthew 22:37-39, ESV). And this was Jesus’ response to the question, “Which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” - referring, of course, to the Law of Moses. Until Jesus came, the second greatest command as stated in the Old Testament (Leviticus 19) was completely adequate. In fact, I think it was the best we could hope for in terms of loving another human being. This is The Golden Rule (Matthew 7:12): Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. But throw into the mix the fact that sometimes we don’t even love ourselves. Sometimes we can truly struggle to like what we are, who we are, and certainly what we do. How can we be expected to love others as we love ourselves if we don’t even know how to love ourselves? There are days when many of us struggle just to be nice to ourselves. So how can we love better? Jesus gives the answer. In the gospel of John, Jesus said, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” (John 13:34, ESV). Jesus has raised the bar. Not that he has made it more difficult to love (quite the contrary: With this command he also promises to pour out the love of God into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, thus enabling us to love beyond human capacity), but the idea of love itself has been raised! No longer are we called to love others as we would like to be loved, as we desire to be loved, as we are able to humanly love. Now, with Jesus’ advent, we are called to love others with self-sacrifice - to actually consider others better than ourselves (Philippians 2). Jesus said that no greater love can be expressed than the willingness to lay down your life for another person. This is exactly what Jesus did. In showing us the greatest gift of self-sacrifice through the cross, Jesus teaches us how to love like God loves. And, through his resurrection, Jesus shows us that such love is vindicated! I pray that each of us might take a moment to really ponder this revision of the second greatest command. Love your neighbor as Jesus has loved you. Elections, Thanksgiving and Christmastime with relatives and in-laws: These events offer us plenty of opportunities to live out the revised commandment. May we love God. May we love others. May we love as Jesus loves.

Lee Keele is senior minister at Crossroads Christian Church, Hutchinson.

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