Week 5, Day 2 - Tuesday Devotional

Bible Verse:
“This is my command: Love each other as I have loved you. The greatest love a person can show is to die for his friends.“
‭‭John‬ ‭15‬:‭12‬-‭13‬ ‭NCV‬‬
Devotional:
Jesus is speaking to His disciples in these verses in an effort to comfort them as they wait for His departure.
And how does He comfort them? By calling them friends! What an intimate, comforting, beautiful picture of their relationship with the Son of God!!
Friends of God - describing those who follow Jesus instead of the world, who are committed to His love and truth, and one whose life bears fruit as demonstration of a heart changed by God.
Because our lives should look differently as Christ-followers.
Jesus challenges His disciples with this - to “love one another as I have loved you.”
When we know full well and are filled up with the love of our Heavenly Father, only then can we overflow with God’s love to those around us!
How do we do this? We must abide in Him. How can you lovingly, sacrificially “lay down your life” for someone today?