Sunday, May 20, 2012
NEW COMMANDMENT LOVE
Jesus said, "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." The process of our development in the "new commandment" is to grow from infantile selfishness to adult generosity and from the need to be loved to the capacity for loving. The adult has the initiative of love and does not have to be loved before loving, and loves those who do not love him. This is extraordinary, but normal growth for the disciple. We love in an adult way so patiently and faithfully that we can awaken another to this very kind of love. This is the way God loves us, it is how husbands and wives love, and it is the way fathers and mothers love their children. This is normal love for adults, for the mature.
This maturing is basically to make commitment to another. A child in the faith is one who has never fully committed to the Lord because of constant demands and needs and crying out for intimacy. When we know we are loved we can become adult and will then desire to give away the very love we have been given. We assume the promise of the Lord for ourselves and want it for others: I will love them so well, I will suffer for them so patiently, and I will forgive them so often, that they will finally come to know I love them.
Lord, teach me the ways of love. Mature me to You.
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Jesus
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