John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his
life for his friends.
The life of Jesus Christ was not the life of a mere man, but
the life of a divine man who gave up His deity and His royalty in order to
accept the calling of Almighty God to be the blood sacrifice for the sins of
all mankind. Jesus took on this calling
freely and voluntarily that He might secure our legal standing in the kingdom
of God.
The moment that we accepted the salvation that Jesus made
possible when He laid down His life for us, we were given the power and the
calling to lay down our lives day after day for the people around us. This sacrificial calling is contrary to our
human nature. Our flesh will fight us on
every occasion, be it large or small, that we seek to emulate Jesus' love for
us in our service to others. And
certainly, Satan will do his part to discourage us too.
Yet we can and will overcome the urges of Satan and our
flesh, if we learn to rely on the urgings of the Holy Spirit. For we were not only given the calling to
serve, we were also given the power to serve.
We were given the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ to dwell within us. All we have to do is let the Spirit within us
flow out of us.
Prayer
Heavenly Father, we thank You for providing Your Son Jesus
to die for us so that we would not remain separated from You for all eternity
because of our sins. We praise Your Name
for extending Your mercy so that we could accept the salvation that we did not
earn and do not deserve. We pray, Father
God, that the fullness of Your Holy Spirit will flow from us each day. May we learn to lay down our lives each day
so that others may see the way, the truth and the life that is in Your Son,
Jesus. We ask all these things in the
name of the Slain Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.
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