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Selfless Love
Call to Prayer
Topic: Selfless Love
By: Daniel Peter
Date: 18.11.2024
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
(John 13:34, NIV)
(John 13:34, NIV)
Love is the instruction of the New Covenant. We live holy and righteous lives by simply walking in love. Despite the importance of the instruction to love, very few believers actually understand what it means to love as Christ intends. When you know love, you know God, for God is love (1 John 4:8). Therefore, seeking to understand the nature of love Christ requires from us has enormous benefits and will help us progress in our faith.
When Jesus Christ manifested as a man, He was asked by someone what the greatest commandments in the Old Covenant were. Jesus Christ responded by saying, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:37-40). He went further to state that the entire law stood on these two commands. From His statement, the love those in the old covenant were expected to show for others was measured based on that which they could show for themselves.
However, just before He went to the cross, He gave a New Commandment, which was that we, His disciples, are to love others based on the love He has loved us (John 13:34). Though it sounds similar to His summary of the Old Covenant, it is different, which is why He called it “a new commandment.” To understand what Jesus expects from us, we have to look at what He did for us at the cross, when He died for us while we were still sinners (Romans 5:8). That is, when we were most unworthy and at our weakest, He demonstrated His love for us.
Like Jesus, we are to show love to those undeserving of our love, even if we have to give up ourselves. This is selfless love. It’s natural to love one who loves you back, but it’s divine to love one who doesn’t love you back. It’s natural to love that which is strong and well-to-do, but it’s divine to love one who is weak and unable to pay you back for your love. Only love shown to the undeserving is rewarded by God.
In a period when Job was being tested by affliction, his wife found his breath offensive (Job 19:17) and asked him to curse God and die (Job 2:9). It was clear her love for him wasn’t genuine all along. However, when Apostle Paul was sick and went to Galatia for medical help, the Galatians didn’t despise him because of his situation but received him as an angel of God (Galatians 4:13-14). Are you like Job’s wife or the Galatians? Are you passing the test of true love God is bringing your way?
We become like God when we are able to love like Him (1 John 4:17). Love is the character of God. Those who practice love are the holy and righteous.
Prayer Point
Let’s thank God for His word today. Let’s ask Him to help us walk in love as He has instructed us.
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