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Theo Tigno•
5/13/2008 9:18 pm
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Wednesday, May 14th 2008 |
John 15:9-17
Jesus said to his disciples: "As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
"I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete. This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command you: love one another."
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is for the continued efforts to save those affected by the earthquake in China and the cyclone in Myanmar.
"I have called you friends."
In C.S. Lewis' book, The Four Loves, he talks about friendship and how it is not like the other loves. Instead of looking "at" each other, the both of you are looking at something in common.
Christ calls us friends. It's a great Hallmark card, but do we truly understand what this means beyond the mere sentiment of God calling us friends?
On this earth, Jesus Christ looked toward the cross in knowing how He would love us. His friends, His disciples in the Gospel, followed the same path in giving up their lives.
Christ doesn't call us to a friendship of convenience. He calls us to live lives where dying to ourselves is our act of love. He did the same for each of us so that we may be with Him in heaven. What is Christ calling you to die to today? Take care and God Bless.
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