Love Incorruptible
By Jon Walker
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 (NIV)
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Jesus said no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13), but Jesus laid down his life for more, including enemies, adversaries, and rebels.
His greater love now lives inside us, it abides in us, with the objective to move us toward laying down our lives for others in the same way Jesus did: “I have given you an example to follow. Do as I have done to you” (John 13:15 NLT).
This greater love may not require that we die physically for others, but it does require that we lay down our demands for life on our own terms, our agendas to control, our needs to be noticed (suggested by Hebrews 12:4).
When others block our demands, frustrate our agendas, or neglect our needs, our tendency is to complain: “God, what are you going to do with these disagreeable people?”
Yet, if we’ll be still, and know he is God (Psalm 46:10), we might hear him respond, “I already did something. I laid down my life for them. Will you do the same?”
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