It took me about 12 minutes to read this passage. I like the wording that The Message used in 5:2 to define Jesus’ love: “His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.” I know that too often I am cautious in my love of people for a number of reasons; I don’t know them, I have been hurt by them, they are people who look or act very different from me. But Jesus could say the same thing about each of us. I know that I need reminded of the second statement; to love in order to give. That is the whole purpose of Jesus’ command to love one another. Since it is exactly what he did, when we respond likewise we show other people how closely we are following Jesus.
Stuart
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