Love as God Loves

Love as God Loves
Read John 17

“O righteous Father! The world has not known You,

but I have known You; 

and these have known that You sent Me.

“And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it,

 that the love with which You loved Me

 maybe in them, and I in them.”

                                                                                             John 17:25,26
Here Jesus in John clearly states who He is and how He has glorified the Father.
He also prays for the disciples ending with the words “that the love with which You loved Me maybe in them, and I in them.”
The love with which the Father loved Jesus maybe in them.  That is an incredible love.
God loved Jesus with an infinite love, and this is the kind of love Jesus was asking for His  disciples.
It was this kind of love that those disciples took to the world.  It is the kind of love that allowed them to suffer martyrdom and endure all they had to endure.  This is the kind of love God imparts to us.
Read Paul’s words,

Love suffers long and is kind: 

love does not envy; 

love does not parade itself,

 is not puffed up;

does not behave rudely, 

does not seek its own, 

is not provoked, 

thinks no evil.

does not rejoice in iniquity,

 but rejoices in the truth;

bears all things,

 believes all things, 

hopes all things,

 endures all things.

Love never fails.  

                                                                          1 Corinthians 13:4-8a
This is what love is all about.  Love will go through anything.  If we truly love God and truly want to do His will we must love.  We must love even our worst enemy.  As Christians, we must grasp the meaning of an all too often used and misused verse:
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life".  
                                                          John 3:16
We need also to remember the verse after John 3:16 it states,
“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
John 3:17 
We must love people so passionately, that we do not want to see one of them go to hell because that’s how much God did.
How passionate are you for winning souls for Christ?
Is your love so great that it will do all that 1 Corinthians 13 states?
Think about it.