As Jesus or As yourself?* (II)

*DAILY DEW 3RD/DECEMBER/2021*

*As Jesus or As yourself?* (II)

_Key Bible Text:_
*This is how we've come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves.* (1 John 3:16 (The Message))

_Bible Insight:_

When Christmas is littered with new clothes, shoes, business boom and increase in commercial activities, ritual killings rumours, kidnappings, pick pocketing, one chance encounters, missing persons alert, Christmas rice and chickens to mention but a few, we easily miss the real focus of Christmas-- the Christ that was born to die, to rise and to reign eternally. 

We must never forget that Christmas is not about an opportunity to travel to the village with our latest show off biz efforts. Actually, we must however travel from John 3:16 to 1 John 3:16: Jesus threw a huge challenge at you and I, if we are truly his followers and not just some bunch of fun lovers, mistaking church for Christ, while also mistaking the Christ for the Chris, who happens to be our neighbor or some old school mate.

Jesus indeed laid a different and more challenging rule with his life  before he died on the cross. He said you ought to love as He himself loved- Not as you will like to love. In fact, not even as you will like to be loved. By the advent of John 13:34, Jesus overruled Mark 12:31 and everywhere else the position the commandment therein was contained.

*And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.* (Mark 12:3 (KJV)) Please note this. This commandment along with the first part that says we should love God were the greatest commandments until Jesus began by saying, A NEW COMMANDMENT....

Jesus was fully aware that He was about to lay a new rule down. He was about to shift the goal post right in the middle of the match and like it or not, He had every right to!

_MEDITATION:_
*When next someone says "Love your neighbour as you love yourself" Tell them that is the old rule. The new rule is to love as Jesus loves. May we receive grace to do likewise. Amen.*

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