We love because he first loved us.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Fulfilling the Law Through Love
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
We love God because He first loved us. I can see that.
Love fellow disciples. I can see that.
Love others as our Lord loved us. That will be difficult but I’ll try.
Love replaces Mosaic Law. I’m all for that.
Love my enemies? Come on, please don’t ask me to do that?
Let me ask, who is the enemy?
What do we stand for? Sharing the love of God. Then our enemies would be those who deny that it is God loving them through us. Then Luke 6:35 makes sense and we just keep pouring on the love. The hope is that love will wear them down and they will come to see God through us.
If Agape love doesn’t win them over, nothing will.