AS I LOVE YOU!

AS I LOVE YOU!


Jesus broke ALL the
Ten Commandments=
Down to basically two


Love God=his and our FATHER=
And LOVE ONE ANOTHER
As I have loved you


And that is the KICKER=
Who can love
LIKE JESUS CAN?


“This is my commandment
Love one another=AS I
LOVE YOU” John 15:12


Just a single sentence=
Just a sentence that
Contains SO MUCH


It isn't easy to LOVE
ONE ANOTHER=because we are
All IMPERFECT=we all have
FAULTS


Yet there it is=we are
To love each other=love EVERYONE
The way Jesus does


GIVING up our own loves=our own
SELFISH ambition=for the wants
And needs of other human beings


THREE little words=
love one another
With the realization
AS I LOVE YOU


That is the MOST difficult part=
Loving others-
The ways in which HE LOVED US


“For I have always been mindful
Of your UNFAILING LOVE


And have lived
In reliance
On your faithfulness” Psalm 26:3


“Many claim to have
UNFAILING LOVE


But a faithful person
WHO can find?” Proverbs 20:6


I sure wish Jesus
WOULDN'T have added that phrase
“AS I LOVE YOU”


Who can love=with an
Unfailing love=like Jesus
I KNOW I CAN'T-
Though I try


Jesus RAISED the bar high
With his love=and he loves
EVERY single one
Of us


Jesus loves us compassionately-
Inclusively-UNCONDITIONALLY-consistently-
Joyfully=and sacrificially


It is HARD to
Love sacrificially=
It is hard to love
Someone else=and GIVE UP
A piece of ourselves


But that is WHAT
We have to do=
IF we are to
LOVE LIKE Jesus


Can our love measure up
To JESUS'?=probably not
But we=we have to CONTINUE
To TRY and love like him


“But to you who
Are listening=I say
'LOVE your enemies=do good
To those who hate you


BLESS those
Who curse you


Pray for those
Who mistreat you'” Luke 6:27-28


“No one has
Ever seen God


And if we=LOVE ONE ANOTHER
God lives in us
And his LOVE is
MADE COMPLETE IN US” 1 John 4:12


Dear Lord=we TRY
To love JUST LIKE YOU
But we fall short


For the times-we have
FALLEN SHORT=we ask for
Your forgiveness and HELP


Dear Lord=HELP US to love
AS YOU DO


In Jesus' name=and also the name of our HEAVENLY FATHER!


Robert P. Wallman
5-23-19




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Melannie Svoboda, S.N.D.