John 15:12 (NKJV)
Tonight I sit on my bed and think about how beautiful God's people are. If you know me, you would know this is my life song. The closer I get to Jesus Christ (The Beautiful One), the more I actually realise how beautiful His people are. I start to see why He would die for people like us. Even when we are broken, hurting and without hope.
Lately the Lord drew me close to someone I am related to by blood and in a matter of days. This was so supernatural and I saw God in this in so many ways. It is in times like these that I only want to cry because the emotion is so overwhelming.
I know that through experiences like these God can form His heart deep within us. A heart of pure love for our brothers and our sisters to crazy lengths.
As we read in John 15:12, Jesus did not ask us if it was possible to love one another - He commanded it! He definitely knew that this was not going to be a walk in the park, especially when it comes to loving certain people. However, He commanded us because firstly He set an example when He washed His disciples' feet in John 13. Then secondly, He will teach us through His Holy Spirit what it means to truly love one another as He has loved us.
This is real and pure love. It is something we have not experienced yet and it comes in a great measure. If we have received pure love straight from Him in all of His measure, our bodies would explode because His love is so powerful. It is the very nature of God!
He has not been sitting on a throne just hoping to punish us because He takes pleasure in it. He is burning with desire for us, always ready to draw closer to us. Now if that is His love for us, how should our love be for one another? For He requires that we love one another as HE HAS LOVED US.
This is why the church of Acts shared and lived an unselfish lifestyle with one another, it was because they had a revelation of the love of God through the Holy Spirit. He is beautiful and if His Spirit is teaching us how to love, then that love will be a beautiful love. For there is no perversion in God's love.
Some of us have been blessed with really great people in our lives. The Father has orchestrated that they would be in our lives, some for a certain season and some for a lifetime on the earth. But often times we tend to grow familiar to having them in our lives, till the Father takes them away - whether by death or by distance.
It is with new eyes that we now behold how much we really had with those around us if they were taken away. We tend to, in regret, just ponder on what we could have done or should have done. Some of us have hurt one another so bad that the relationship now requires deep healing. And because of grace we can reconnect with people on a deeper level than we were before the distance came. This is the power of forgiveness.
My question to you as you read this blog is who is there in your life that you have not honoured that should receive honour? Who is there in your life that needs to hear that you love them? Yes, chances are that they feel honoured and loved by you, but maybe it is time that you refresh the passion of love between you and your brother, your sister or maybe a parent, child or spouse. Love is never boring and never is it familiar. We can never reach a point where we know the one we love completely. We are an ocean of deep depths, there is always something new to love about the one we find ourselves with on a daily basis and those we get to see a few times in a year.
This is the pleasure of loving one another. It is Him pouring His heart out into our hearts so that we can experience His love in a manner that is tangible. It is then that His love will be revealed in a revelation of loving one another.
This is TRUE LOVE.
Shalom,
Rowyn Coetzee.
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