His love
Author
Faustino de Jesús Zamora Vargas
Summary: God's greatest act of love was sending his son Jesus to cancel our sins and offer us reconciliation. By staying rooted in Christ's love, we can experience spiritual fullness and express God's love to others. Loving one another is the hallmark of a true disciple, and it is the best testimony to the world that we are followers of Christ. This love is practical, not just intellectual or speculative. We are born again to a life of true love in Christ, and God's plan of love for humanity is summed up in John 3:16.
The highest expression of God's love for us is having sent his son Jesus Christ into the world so that our sins could be canceled and sin erased. The extraordinary act of infinite love towards man consists in that God brought the solution to sin through the ministry of reconciliation exercised by Christ. Christ has been, is and will be the fulfillment of God's mission, the embodiment of his love. On the cross, God unloaded all divine wrath against the beloved son so as not to unload it on us. And as if that were not enough, he raised us up with him, giving us new life and making us heirs to a kingdom of eternal promises and abundant love.
“I love you as the Father loves me; therefore remain in the love that I have for you ”(Jn 15.9). This is the most amazing message of Christ to his disciples; staying in his love. The blessings, the spiritual growth, the success in the ministry, in the marriage, in the work and in everything that the Christian undertakes, will depend on our subjection, on our roots in the love of Christ. Being rooted in his perfect love, residing in that great love, brings spiritual fullness and allows us to feel the need to express it with full hands. It is impossible not to express the love of God if we have known Christ. This expression is the visible sign that we have been born again to a life that manifests love, not carnal, not sensual, but spiritual because it is a love that comes from the Spirit, that transforms, that is reflected in pious thoughts, in our own way. to serve others, in the filling of the Holy Spirit that is nothing more than allowing him to take and exercise total control of our lives.
Jesus insists on the very idea of love: "My commandment is this: Love one another as I have loved you" (Jn 15.12). Love towards God and towards neighbor is the hallmark of the Christian. When you want to know if the brother who is next to you has been born of God through Jesus Christ, observe if he expresses His love: if he suffers for lost souls, if he helps to carry the burdens of those who do not find consolation and hope, if his piety moves him to mercy and justice. It is not a speculative or intellectual love, but a practical one.
The true disciple practices the love of God in love for one another. That love is the best testimony to the world that will not skimp on judging us in light of its standards: "If you love one another, everyone will realize that you are my disciples" (Jn 13:35). God's love is perfected in our lives as we remain clinging to Jesus.
Christ is the sublime incarnation of God's grace, of his eternal love that endures forever. We live for Him and in Him and He lives in us, so that we have the seed of love sown in our hearts. To be reborn to a new life in Christ is to be born to true love.
I cannot conclude without mentioning what some call “the miniature bible”, that amazing verse that sums up God's wonderful plan of love for humanity: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everything whoever believes in him should not die, but have eternal life ”(Jn 3:16)
God bless you!