LOVE
MUST BE RECIPROCATED
Memorise:
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my
Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. John 15:10
Read:
John 15:9-10, Bible in one year: 1st Chronicles 23:25, Luke
18:35-19:10
God loves us so much the He gave us
Himself as a gift. Giving Jesus Christ to die for us was the same as giving
Himself to us (1st Timothy 3:16). But He did not stop there, He went
further, pointing out to us in Romans 8:32 that:
“He
that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not
with him also freely give us all things.”
However, love should be a two-way
exchange, and not one-sided. If you love someone and your love is not being
reciprocated, after a while, something will happen to that love. That love may
grow cold or even die. The same applies to the relationship between God and us.
If you check through the scriptures, you will learn that whenever God does
something for someone, He expects them to do something in return. It is one
thing to be loved and another thing to abide in that love. While you were in
your sins, God demonstrated His love for you by sending Himself, in the person
of Jesus Christ, to die for you. When you respond to this divine initiative by
repenting of your sins and accepting Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, you will
be washed by His blood and forgiven. After this, God increases His love towards
you, and when you reciprocate, that love increases.
Love begets greater love. If you want to
sustain or increase the love that God has for you, reciprocate His love. In
today’s reading, Jesus tells us that when He came to earth as a man, He was
loved by the Father; but to sustain that love, He had to keep the Father’s
commandments. What the Father expected of Jesus is what He expects of us today.
There is no way you will continue in God’s love when you deliberately break His
commandments or refuses to obey Him. If He has loved you, He expects you to
love Him too. He expects your obedience. He also expects you to love other
brethren. How have you reciprocated the love of the Lord? even though
afflictions, persecutions, angles, Satan, what we see and what we can’t see
cannot separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:35-39),
disobedience, manifested by violation of His word, can deal that love a
terrible blow
Action
Point
List
some things you have never done that you can start doing to reciprocate the
love of God. Do them from today!
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