Dec 22, 2024 … Loving Like Jesus

Dec 22, 2024 … Loving Like Jesus  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...     Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Danny Gokey and Michael W Smith singing … Love God Love People … Calling on Christians to love others the way Jesus love us.  

Highlight Passage: … 1John 4:19 [NLT] … 

19 We love each other because he loved us first.          

… John states truth about how we can love each other because Jesus first loved us.                   

Highlight Passage (in context): … 1John 4:13-21  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God reveals to John the new Jerusalem in Heaven where God is the source of light and no need for sun or moon.                                                  

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Reference Passage: … John 3:16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Jesus tells a Jewish leader, Nicodemus, of the extent of God’s love in sending His Son to die for our sins.                                  

Reference Passage: … John 13:34-35 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus, in the upper room, teaches His Disciples (and us), commanding them (us) to love one another, showing the world that they (we) are His disciples.               

Reference Passage: … John 15:13 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Jesus, also in the upper room, shows what Christlike love is.                        

Reference Passage: … Romans 5:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians (and  us) how Christ demonstrated His love for us by dying for us while we were still sinners.     

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

… the Apostle Paul also teaches fellow Christians what love is all about. 

Reference Passage: … 1John 4:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… John teaches any anyone who does not love others is not truly of God, Who is love.  

 

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author -  Amy Boucher Pye  … AT THIS LINK    …  Amy Boucher Pye, the ODB author today related a story of a church friend, Margaret, who was in a hospital and was visited by a number of church friends who showed their love for Margaret, who was witnessing her faith in Christ to another person in the room, the roommate who was almost overwhelmed by the exhibition of love by the visiting church members.  Margaret’s roommate commenting that the visitors where  “like tangible love poured out.”  And Margaret responded by witnessing,   “It all comes down to our love of God through His Son Jesus Christ!”  

And taking in the Scriptures shared above and the linked song, about the extent of God’s love for us, convicts me to do more in my life to share God’s love by showing HIS love thru MY love for others.  What could we do today that shares His love with someone?      

                                                                    

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … thank You, Lord, for loving me, in spite of me.     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to reach out and share Your love with someone today.       …  Amen

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