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Love: One Tall Order

"Love: One Tall Order" 

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We have spent several days studying love. We have seen that love and faith go hand in hand because both require some action in or it is useless. What good does it do to tell somebody you love them if you aren't willing to show that love by doing loving things. What parent for example would tell their children they love them and then let them go play in traffic? Obviously no parent would do so. They do not do so because they love their children. Love wants what is in the best interest of its object. Jesus loved the world enough that He was willing to leave Heaven and suffer the horrors of the cross. Many people think that means He took a very brutal beating and died a horrible death, which it does. It means more than that though. It meant that during the time He was dying the sin of the world was cast upon Him and God literally abandoned Him because God cannot look upon sin. You and I have no idea what eternity is like. So we can't imagine the incredible impact of the separation of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit at that time. It boggles the mind to think how hard it would be to lose somebody we have spent the last 1,,000 years with. To consider losing somebody we have literally been with forever is incomprehensible. Yet Jesus willingly made that sacrifice. "My commandment is this; love one another, just as i have loved you," John 15: 12.

if Jesus loved us enough to undergo not only the death of the cross but the separation that occurred due to that death, then commanding us to love one another equally is not something we should take lightly! In fact we should make a career out of loving people! Love is tough. It truly is. It's easy to say "I love you."

We may even feel like we love others but love means putting the needs of others ahead of our own needs and desires. It means serving others. It means getting out of ourselves and putting the needs of even our enemies ahead of our own. That is no small order.

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