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A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.\u00a0 John 23:34-35 (ESV)
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Jesus is the ultimate model for life, but there are some aspects of his journey that we cannot imitate. \u201cWhere I am going you cannot come.\u201d (vs. 33b) We cannot go to the cross and pay the penalty of the sins of mankind. We cannot follow him to the grave and be the firstborn from the dead. Those are some of the unique features of Jesus that we are not expected to imitate. But there is one overarching dynamic we can expect to reproduce just as he demonstrated it.
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We can love like he did and does.\u00a0 His new commandment was different from all previous ones. The Old Testament had instructed the covenant people to love God with all their heart, but even the best of them couldn\u2019t love the way Jesus did.\u00a0 He could love greater than any man because he was freer than any man. The obstacle for all of us is our preoccupation with ourselves. We are bent inward. We can\u2019t envision life without self being the center. Every action and thought seems to get back to how it affects us. Jesus was totally conscious of being unconditionally loved by the Father. He had no need of self-image improvement. He could give himself away to others because he relationship with the Father was eternally secure and indestructible. \n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Later in the discourse he gives the key to unspeakable joy.
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Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love just as I have kept my Father\u2019s commandments and abide in his love. John 15:9-10 (ESV)<\/i>
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The key to being able to love like Jesus loved is being loved like he was loved. The encouraging news is that we have been loved like that. God the Father has bestowed the same love on those in Christ as he has upon Christ himself. Now believing that and ingesting it into our consciousness is our task. It seems too good to be true.
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We can identify with the Israelites who stood at the edge of the Promised Land and doubted. God had said it was theirs for the taking and they couldn\u2019t believe it. Might we stand on the edge of an all-conquering love and miss it because it is too good to believe? We don\u2019t feel loved so we conclude we aren\u2019t.
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As we venture into this paradise of love, we discover that the love of God has been poured into us by the Holy Spirit and we are actually able to live without bending everything to our benefit. We can truly be more concerned about the interest of others above our own. This is so different that Jesus says it will be the distinguishing mark of his followers. Wouldn\u2019t that be refreshing? Instead of trying to make ourselves distinctive by being strange in doctrine or behavior, we could just be recognized as those who can love like no other on earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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