“This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man should lay down his life for his friends”. – John 15:12-13
Is there any demonstration of love greater than laying one’s life down for the people you love? That is the uttermost price of love. No other religious founder paid this level of other than our LORD AND SAVIOUR Jesus Christ. He laid down his life for us that we may have life and have it more abundantly. He made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men and in humility became obedient unto death, even the humiliating death of the cross. This is a mighty deed that only true and genuinely deep love can bring about. That is why the bible says in Ephesians 3:17-19(KJV) “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God”. In other words it is when we have Christ in our life by faith and are rooted and grounded in love, that we will begin to comprehend the dimension and knowledge of the LOVE of Christ which surpasses all human knowledge and consequently be filled with all the fullness of God. This assertion collaborates with 1 Corinthians 13:13 “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity(LOVE).” Our fastest and most guaranteed route of attaining spiritual heights is through a lifestyle of love as revealed in the scriptures. Love is the most powerful tool of defense. When you operate in love you are exempted from all forms of satanic attack and feared in the kingdom of darkness because you are filled with all the fullness of God.
Prayer: Father grant me the grace to live a life of love towards God and my fellow man. In Jesus name.
Bro. Joel Ezeugo