Mother Teresa once said, ” I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, ‘Love one another as I have loved you.'(John 15:12) Ask yourself, ‘How has He loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?’ Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.” When Jesus told His disciples to love one another it really wasn’t a new commandment…in Leviticus 19:18 they were told to “Love your neighbor as yourself”, but here Jesus changes the wording from “neighbor” to “one another” and from “as yourself” to “as I have loved you.” So by changing the wording, Jesus put the focus on our need to pattern our lives after His sacrificial love for us. This takes examining our own lives and thinking about the many ways God has loved us… and then emulating that same grace, mercy, and love to everyone we come in contact with daily. The greatest model we have before us to follow is the life of Jesus…serving as and most worthy of imitation in our life.
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