Spread His Love

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  John 3:17

God didn’t commission me to condemn others either.  In fact, Jesus commanded, in Matthew 22:38, that I love my neighbor as myself.  How in the world can I do that?  Back it up two verses to His first and greatest commandment: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  That’s how.

When I set about loving my Lord my God with all of my heart and with all of my soul and with all of my mind, my life changes powerfully.  I receive so many gifts that I am full of God’s unceasing love and can freely give that love to others. The greatest gift is receiving God’s great love for me!  I learn to live in that love and even learn to love myself as He sees me.  When I do, when I know how much I am loved by the Creator of the universe, by the Great I Am, then I can give love generously to others as He commands me to do.

Condemning others, or myself, stops that flow because it isn’t what I’m here to do.  I am not to condemn myself.  I am to live in the truth that God loves me and isn’t condemning me.  I am not to condemn others.  I am to give them the love God has given me.

Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.                  1 John 3:18