2/9/2025
“We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” (1 John 3:14-15)
Love is not an emotion. It’s not goosebumps or butterflies in your belly. Rather love is the complete and accurate knowledge of a person’s worth. Now, this knowledge is not just cognitive but practical. Love is a demonstrated knowledge. The Bible says, “...God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). In other words, God’s love for you [His complete and accurate knowledge] was worth Christ dying for you. Let me put it differently, in God’s complete and accurate estimation of you, you are Jesus.
Now, if you know your worth, why would God not answer your prayers? In 1 John 4:17, the Bible says, “Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.” It’s right there, you are the same value to God as Jesus.
Now this should revolutionize your prayer life. When you pray for yourself and other Christians, see their worth as they are. You should be excited every time a meeting is called because the true value of the people you are going to be with is Jesus.
But we take this a notch higher into how this love should also change your evangelism. The man or woman who has yet to know his or her true worth is also Jesus. Would you, in your capacity, knowing their complete and accurate worth, let them wallow in ignorance and death? If you saw Jesus going the wrong way, based on who you now know yourself to be, would you not go out of your way to stop Him. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” The Father so accurately and completely valued a world of sinners that He exchanged His Son, Jesus.
This is why the Lord will say at the end of time, “Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.”(Matthew 25:40)
Love is not a careless emotion. Love is seeing Jesus in everyone and acting accordingly.
What will you do for Jesus today? How would you treat him or her on the street; in the mall; at the city hall? There is too much that we’ve got to give to people in our lives and around us; their worth–Jesus.
Have a beautiful day!
Faith-Filled Confession
I love, celebrate, honour and delight in everyone God brings my way today, knowing their complete and absolute worth is Jesus. I would only see them as they are and not as they pretend to be. In Jesus’ name. Amen
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