We Were Created to be loved & to Love
John 13:34-35 The Message
34-35 “Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In
the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will
recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each
other.”
If we are filled with negative thoughts, hate, bitterness,
rage, and judgment about what others are doing, or how others are choosing to
live their lives, then we will not reach our fullness of all that we were
created/made to be. For when we judge other we are actually putting ourselves
on the judgment seat, the throne of God and by judging other we are
But when we are full of Jesus’ love, we can be all that we
were created/made to be and more. We were created to be loved and to love.
Jesus was the perfect example of love and He came to show
us His perfect love and teach us His way of love. He taught His disciples and
those around Him, all His ways. Paul writes of this perfect love that he learnt
about in 1 Corinthians;
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 The Passion
Translation
4 Love is large and incredibly
patient. Love is gentle and consistently kind to all. It refuses to be
jealous when blessing comes to someone else. Love does not
brag about one’s achievements nor inflate its own importance. 5 Love
does not traffic in shame and disrespect, nor selfishly seek its own honor.
Love is not easily irritated or quick to take offense. 6 Love joyfully
celebrates honesty and finds no delight in what is wrong. 7 Love is a
safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for
others. Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up.
Luke 7:36-50 The Message
36-39 One of the Pharisees asked him over for
a meal. He went to the Pharisee’s house and sat down at the dinner table. Just
then a woman of the village, the town harlot, having learned that Jesus was a
guest in the home of the Pharisee, came with a bottle of very expensive perfume
and stood at his feet, weeping, raining tears on his feet. Letting down her
hair, she dried his feet, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfume. When
the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man was
the prophet I thought he was, he would have known what kind of woman this is
who is falling all over him.”
40 Jesus said to him, “Simon, I have
something to tell you.”
“Oh? Tell me.”
41-42 “Two men were in debt to a banker. One
owed five hundred silver pieces, the other fifty. Neither of them could pay up,
and so the banker canceled both debts. Which of the two would be more grateful?”
43-47 Simon answered, “I suppose the one who
was forgiven the most.”
“That’s right,” said Jesus. Then turning to the woman, but speaking to
Simon, he said, “Do you see this woman? I came to your home; you provided no
water for my feet, but she rained tears on my feet and dried them with her
hair. You gave me no greeting, but from the time I arrived she hasn’t quit
kissing my feet. You provided nothing for freshening up, but she has soothed my
feet with perfume. Impressive, isn’t it? She was forgiven many, many sins, and
so she is very, very grateful. If the forgiveness is minimal, the gratitude is
minimal.”
48 Then he spoke to her: “I forgive your
sins.”
49 That set the dinner guests talking
behind his back: “Who does he think he is, forgiving sins!”
50 He ignored them and said to the woman,
“Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”
John 8:1-11 The Passion
Translation
An Adulteress Forgiven
8 Jesus walked up the Mount of
Olives near the city where he spent the night. 2 Then at dawn
Jesus appeared in the temple courts again, and soon all the people gathered
around to listen to his words, so he sat down and taught them. 3 Then
in the middle of his teaching, the religious scholars and the Pharisees
broke through the crowd and brought a woman who had been caught in the act of
committing adultery and made her stand in the middle of everyone.
4 Then they said to Jesus, “Teacher, we
caught this woman in the very act of adultery. 5 Doesn’t
Moses’ law command us to stone to death a woman like this? Tell us, what
do you say we should do with her?” 6 They were only testing Jesus
because they hoped to trap him with his own words and accuse him of
breaking the laws of Moses.
But Jesus didn’t answer them. Instead he simply bent down and wrote in
the dust with his finger. 7 Angry, they kept insisting that he
answer their question, so Jesus stood up and looked at them and said, “Let’s have the man who has never had a
sinful desire throw the first stone at her.” 8 And
then he bent over again and wrote some more words in the dust.
9 Upon hearing that, her accusers slowly
left the crowd one at a time, beginning with the oldest to the
youngest, with a convicted conscience. 10 Until
finally, Jesus was left alone with the woman still standing there in front of
him. So he stood back up and said to her, “Dear woman, where are your accusers? Is
there no one here to condemn you?”
11 Looking around, she replied, “I see no
one, Lord.”
Jesus said, “Then I certainly don’t
condemn you either. Go, and from now on, be free from a life
of sin.”
I can tell you that I was no different to these two
ladies and if I am being totally honest I am still no different to these
ladies. And just as Jesus forgave these two ladies He have also forgiven me of
much as well.
I am not saying that I am perfect but that I try to
remember what Jesus has taught me through His eyes of grace and his heart of
compassion, not to judge the person for their actions but to stand beside them
and be Jesus’ love to them and leave them in Jesus’ loving hands and I can pray
for them just the way Jesus did for us. I am not saying that I don’t judge no
one but when the Holy Spirit reminds me and I listen I repent for standing in
Judgment and set the person free so then we can be truly free to be all that we
have been created to be.
Matthew 7 The Passion Translation
Do Not Judge
7 “Refuse to be a critic full of bias
toward others, and you will not be judged. 2 For you’ll be judged by the same standard that
you’ve used to judge others. The measurement you use on them will be used on
you.
I do hope that you have found these Scriptures helpful and please
if you have any questions or comments please leave them in the comments area
that is provided below.
Abba Father I pray that each of Your loved ones would be as one in
Your Spirit and to know Your perfect love and live in perfect unity with each
other just as You and Your Son, Jesus live in perfect unity with each other.
Abba Father help me to show everyone around me Your perfect love
for them and please don’t let me harden my heart to the ways of this world but
to love them through Your heart of compassion and love. In Jesus name I pray,
Hallelujah and Amen.
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