NO GREATER LOVE

John 15:12,13

This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

The other day I heard someone explain the contrast between lust and love. This is how they put it:

Lust – Meeting my needs at others expense

Love – Meeting others needs at my expense

Lust is all about “me.” What can I get out of this? How will this profit me?

Love is all about the “other person.” How can I make this situation better for them? What can I do to invest in their life?

That really puts it in perspective for us. We tend to get love and lust confused with each other, as though they are the same “feeling”. But when we really think it through, we realize that they are exact opposites. Lust is what comes naturally to us as humans, but it is something that we must strive to overcome as Christ’s children.

Love is a choice. We must decide that we will love someone no matter what. Even to the point of laying our life down for the other person.  

When we start to ask ourselves what our motives are for doing certain things, we will realize how many times it is for our own gain. Christ came to be the true example of love. He gave His life for the whole world. He had no motive to get anything in return.  He did not just give His life by giving His time to others and treating them with kindness. But He actually died in their stead. He died in our stead.

He died instead of you.

There is no greater love than this!