Trying to love the unlovely?
I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another. – John 13:34 AMP
Yes, there are many times that we must love people that are not worthy of our love or God’s love. Jesus knew this when He spoke these words to His disciples. He intended that we would realize that we must tap into His love to love the most difficult people.
In the 13th chapter of John Jesus did a super-natural thing when He chose to wash the feet of all of His disciples knowing that one of His disciples would sell Him out to His enemies, another disciple that said that he loved Him but would deny Him three times in the same breath and yet another disciple that doubted Him from the beginning and would doubt Him even after He was resurrected. What love! To look past the weaknesses of those around Him and choose to love them not based on their goodness but based on God’s goodness.
Jesus showed us how to love with the supernatural love of God that never gives up and always wins! We must make a daily choice to operate in that type of love, it is a decision and not a choice. Jesus did and we can…if and when we choose.
