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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