Full life in love
Faustino de Jesús Zamora Vargas
SUMMARY: As Christians, we are called to express the love of God through our lives. The joy of the Lord is the natural expression of His love in us, and we cannot be indifferent or still when we have experienced it. Our love for others should reflect the sacrificial love that Christ showed us. However, many Christians struggle to love sacrificially and instead seek glory for themselves. We need to learn to love in Christ's style, not just display it in religious acts. Love is not to be kept or treasured, but shared with those in need. If we lead a life of love, the world may come to believe in Christ.
The heart that has surrendered to Christ needs to express love. You cannot be still and indifferent. The joy of the Lord is the expression of His love through a heart that has experienced a special touch of the Spirit. The knowledge of God's love is a supernatural experience that heals and strengthens, that transmits a peace and joy that we cannot hide and that we need to share. Christians are known for the way they reflect in their life the love of God by abiding in Christ. God did not skimp on giving us his most precious offering of love in his beloved son. The salvation of the world in exchange for his blood, his life for ours, his death for our life, his resurrection for a new birth of sinful man. Full life in Christ is the certainty of a new hope, of a new way of loving.
The love that has grown in us by the grace of God can perform miracles, generate wonders, clothe the soul with mercy when unbelief looks out of the window of our human passions. It is the "all-encompassing" love of God that elevates us to heights where everything abounds. Our problem is that we don't know how to share it. We love each other too much to choose sacrifice in favor of others. Love your neighbor as yourself? Pure altruism for today's world seeking glory for itself, pending matter for many Christians.
Christ lives so that we have life together with Him and we learn to love in His style, not to display it in the showcase of religiosity trying to fill gaps and insufficiencies that only He can fill. To the intentional double standards of the Pharisees when asked about the most important commandment, the Lord “… answering, said: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind. ; and your neighbor as yourself. (Lk 10.27)
Where is the love for my brother? The apostle John wrote: In this we know what love is: in that Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. So we too must lay down our lives for our brothers. (1 Jn 3.16)
Life full of love is not love to keep or treasure, but rather to substitute "I" for "we". Trying to look at the world with God's eyes is difficult, but we have been called to compassion, to move those inner springs that the hand of Jesus activated so that we could give glory to his name by placing ourselves in the place of others. All the blood of Christ fits in a cup of fraternal embrace to the needy of love, to the one who cries out for health in illness, to the mother who cries for a child, to the hopeless with no other option than their own misfortune. The world could believe if we lead a life of love. Fullness in Christ is abundance of love. Share it!
God bless you!
The love that has grown in us by the grace of God can perform miracles, generate wonders, clothe the soul with mercy when unbelief looks out of the window of our human passions. It is the "all-encompassing" love of God that elevates us to heights where everything abounds. Our problem is that we don't know how to share it. We love each other too much to choose sacrifice in favor of others. Love your neighbor as yourself? Pure altruism for today's world seeking glory for itself, pending matter for many Christians.
Christ lives so that we have life together with Him and we learn to love in His style, not to display it in the showcase of religiosity trying to fill gaps and insufficiencies that only He can fill. To the intentional double standards of the Pharisees when asked about the most important commandment, the Lord “… answering, said: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind. ; and your neighbor as yourself. (Lk 10.27)
Where is the love for my brother? The apostle John wrote: In this we know what love is: in that Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. So we too must lay down our lives for our brothers. (1 Jn 3.16)
Life full of love is not love to keep or treasure, but rather to substitute "I" for "we". Trying to look at the world with God's eyes is difficult, but we have been called to compassion, to move those inner springs that the hand of Jesus activated so that we could give glory to his name by placing ourselves in the place of others. All the blood of Christ fits in a cup of fraternal embrace to the needy of love, to the one who cries out for health in illness, to the mother who cries for a child, to the hopeless with no other option than their own misfortune. The world could believe if we lead a life of love. Fullness in Christ is abundance of love. Share it!
God bless you!
