1 John 3:16 NIV
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
Personal Challenge…
What does it mean to lay down my life for another? For Jesus it meant giving up His place in the heavenly realms and coming to earth to be born in a stable in an oppressive time and place. For Him it was to live an incarnate life of poverty and hard work so that He could be with the very people that He wanted to rescue from death. For Him it was to be betrayed, ridiculed, spit on, beaten and crucified so that the bondage of death would be broken for eternity. For Him it was to return back to His followers who abandoned Him after He was resurrected so that He could love, comfort and teach them. Should laying down my life for a brother be any less for me…if I claim to be His child?
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