Today’s Passage- John 15:12-27 NIV (Full passage at the the end)
12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Hey Friend,
You’ve heard it said “loves is a verb.” Bono said it this way, “At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.”
So, real love acts. What does it do? Jesus couldn’t have been any more clear when he said, “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
What friend needs your action today? Try the 3G Practice-
- Give in – to God’s sacrificial love… let God love you. Consider the cost of God’s great love for you as you meditate on this passage…
- Give up– a meal… fast a meal and pray for a friend.
- Give out– an action of love. Let love act through you, for your friend.
Your friends,
Clare and Scott
PS You’re invited to 11:30 Midday Prayers at Crossroads in the Auditorium
Today’s Passage- John 15:12-27( (NIV)
12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit-fruit that will last-and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason. 26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father-the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father-he will testify about me. 27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.