This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.—John 15:12-13 (NLT)
My Lord Jesus,
Help me to love others as You have loved me—to lay down my life for my friends.
Help me more fully
understand and more completely receive Your love for me—so that same love will
flow through me, in all my thoughts,
words and actions, toward others.
Your love for me is not
dependent on my love for You—for Your love continues constant, unchanging and
unfailing, regardless of my faults and failures.
Your love for me is
demonstrated in Your compassion for me—and poured out over me with mercy and
grace, by Your goodness and kindness toward me.
Your love for me is
evidenced in Your patience and gentleness with me—for Your love for me is
perfectly genuine and never superficial.
Your love for me changes
me and always points me to my Heavenly Father—back to the love relationship I
was made to have with Him.
Your love for me is
sacrificial—You laid down Your life for me, so that I could have life, so I
could then follow Your example, by setting aside my will, so that the Father’s
will would be done through me.
Help me to love others as You have loved me—to lay down my life for my friends.
In Your compassionate and
loving Name, Lord Jesus, Amen.
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