"As I have loved you, so you must love one another." - Jesus (John 13:34)
Wow! To say "That's a tough act to follow," would be the understatement of the century!
The love that Jesus showed us is the love that brought Him from heaven to earth, making Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness...humbling Himself and becoming obedient to death - even death on a cross!
The love that Jesus showed us is the love that knelt down as the lowly servant washing the feet of His friends.
The love that Jesus showed us is the love that took a righteous man to the cross, paying the penalty for mankind's sins.
That's how we're supposed to love each other? If only we could! Not in a million years could we love others like that. Our friends - maybe. Our enemies - never!
And yet - here's the power of Christ in us - the Bible says that "God has poured his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us" (Romans 5:5).
The example of Jesus is how we're supposed to love, and the power of the Spirit enables us to do it. God's love has been poured into the hearts of those who belong to Him. Yeah, it's a tough act to follow, but we have no excuse not to love like Jesus. The Bible commands us to love this way, and we've been given all we need to carry it out.
I wonder...
How many marriages could be mended if we loved one another like Jesus loved us?
How many fractured friendships could be fixed if we loved one another like Jesus loved us?
How many poor and hungry people, and widows and orphans, and lonely and outcast and despised and broken down men and women and boys and girls would find hope and joy and rest and peace and forgiveness and salvation in Christ if we loved one another like Jesus loved us?
To love like Jesus is a tough act to follow, so let's follow faithfully, in the steps of our Savior, and love one another with His love.
Teach us to love like you, O Lord! Give us a sincere, fervent love for others - a supernatural love - and help us to love not just with words and pretense or even with good intentions, but in actions and in truth. May the world see the light of Christ shining brightly as your people love one another just like you have loved us, and draw them to Jesus, that your Name may be glorified!
"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." - John 3:16
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THE BIBLIE AND THE DEPRESSION
"Then cometh Jesus with then unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples. Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me." (Matthew 26,36-38)
I think depression is one of the most tragic of which passes through the soul of a person, and because it disfigures the depression self-esteem, self, a sense of transcendence, and other qualities that make man the biggest creations of God. It is an evil that seeks to dispel that image that God placed in us.
In the Bible there are cases of people like Abraham, Moses, King David, the prophet Jeremiah, the prophet Jonah, the Old Testament and New Testament in the case of the apostle Peter and Paul, and even of the Lord Jesus Christ through times of depression.
Sin however I just want to refer to the text of Matthew 26,36-46 in showing that the Lord Jesus at the Garden of Gethsemane with his disciples, suffered a great depression because they experience a profound sadness and a mortal agony. The Lord Jesus looms the intense suffering that was going to experiment until his death at the hands of the Jews, so they turned to the Lord for a prayer that she can regain the strength and peace I needed to face their prueba.
Siendo that the Lord your face depression as any man and found out to them in prayer, this may be a good choice whether you are taking medications as therapy or as an act of faith to level the emotions that are found in our hectic hearts
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