March 28, 2024 … His Example Of Love …

March 28, 2024 …  His Example Of Love  …      

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from the group The Newsboys singing … Love One Another …  Powerfully singing of how God calls His faithful to love one another just as He loved us by being willing to die for us.  

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Highlight Passage: … John 13:34 [NLT] … 

34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: <b> Love each other.</b> Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.              

… Jesus’ direct command to His disciples, in the upper room the night before He would go to the cross, was to love each other.                            

Highlight Passage (in context): …  John 13:3-5, 12-15, 31-35 … USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus, in the upper room, celebrating Passover with His disciples, shows them how to sacrifice to be His disciples and commands them (and us) to do the same.                         

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Highlight Passage (in context): …  Leviticus 19:18 …  

<i>   18 “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against a fellow Israelite, but <b>love your neighbor as yourself</b>. …  I am the Lord.   </i>

… God’s command to all His people, thru Moses.                                                                                                                                                              

Reference Passage: … John 3:16 [NLT] …  

16  “For this is how God loved the world: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. 

… Jesus gave His all to save all (of us) who would sacrifice self to serve others.  

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 13:1-3  [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …

… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians the kind of love Christ demands of His followers.                     

Reference Passage: … Philippians 2:3-5 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul, teaching fellow Christians, shows that God demands of His faithful followers that they (we) take on the attitude of Christ to love and serve others.         

Reference Passage </u>: … 1John 3:16, 4:8 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  </b>

… The Apostle John, teaching fellow Christians, showing that God demands of His faithful followers that they (we) love others the way Christ loved us.        

 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Amy Boucher Pie -  AT THIS LINK -  told of a tradition in England, stemming back to the 13th Century, for the British Royal Family to give gifts to the poor on Maundy Thursday, which, of course, is the Thursday before Easter.  And this symbolizes how much God, … The Heavenly Father,  … was willing to give up, … i.e., His beloved Son, … to give mankind eternal life thru our faith in His Son as Savior and Lord. 

And “Maundy Thursday” is a good day to do a self inventory, asking ourselves, as disciples of Christ, if we’re really living up to God’s command (see Scriptures above) to love and serve others just as Christ was willing to (and did) die to serve His chosen ones.  So, … how we doing on that one?                       

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for being willing to die for me as I pray I’m willing to die to serve You.       

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me again today, … to celebrate Your willingness, Lord, to love us, and even die for us, to receive Your love.   … Amen

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