Luke 10:25-37
So today I am going to do my best to
get back on track with my daily Bible reading and blogging, but you all know
how I am, I can be off track before you know it. Funny how we look at it as being off track,
but God looks at it as keeping us on the right track!
So what is the greatest commandment? It is funny to me how all these ‘high up’
people were always trying to trick Jesus by asking him questions, and yet he
always, always turns them around into a lesson that they could neither question
nor deny the truth of. It seems that
everything goes back to love and if we love Jesus Christ first and foremost
than we should have no trouble loving our neighbors, should we? Or should I say do we? Do we have trouble truly loving everyone? So I know this is hard to believe, but I do
have trouble with this. Even though I
know that when I love Jesus with everything that I have in me then I should
love everyone else automatically. Right?
I do want to love like Jesus and I can
honestly say there is not one person in this world that I would not try to help
if they were in need, but I want to love everyday like Jesus. Not because I want to be that good, but
because I know that when I truly love like Jesus did then people will see Him
in me and not me---and that could make the difference in someone’s
eternity. I know that Jesus’ heart must
ache each time we don’t show love toward one another, after all, he created us
in love and to love.
Through my brother’s sickness my
eyes have been opened to things that I never really thought of before. While he was in the critical care unit, I
began to look around at the desperation of the families in the waiting room,
including us. We were all at a point
where nothing else mattered except the love that we had for our families and our
Savior. The little things that may have
bothered us before never even crossed our minds now, we were desperate for our
Father Jesus Christ. We were calling on
Him to please take care of the situation.
We knew we were at a point where there was no other way. You see I have always known that Jesus is the
only way and that he should always be at the forefront of everything in my
life, but like so many of us, I would get busy and not focus on Him completely. And then came this moment where nothing else
mattered except reaching my Savior. This
is how it should be at all times; we should be so desperate for Jesus and his
love that nothing else is worth anything without it. For the last few weeks we have been in
several different places with my brother, icu waiting rooms, ccu waiting rooms,
nicu waiting room, and now a rehab/nursing center. I have witnessed so many emotions throughout
each place---I have seen desperation, sadness, overwhelming grief, loneliness
and so much more, but what I also saw was that people are desperate for
something more and that something more is the love of Jesus Christ. When we chose Jesus Christ as our Savior,
when we decided to live our lives for Him, then we also chose to show that love
to others. So I ask myself, how do I do
this, how do I love like Jesus? After
much prayer, I have decided that I don’t have it in me to love like Jesus, so
that is why I have to obey the scriptures and deny myself everyday---I have to
ask that Jesus remove anything in me that will hinder me from living for him
today and replace those things with the Holy Spirit. Until we come to the realization that we don’t
have it within ourselves to love like Jesus, we will never be able to love like
Him.
Then He said to them all, “If
anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross
daily, and follow Me. Luke 9:23
He must become greater; I must become less. John 3:30
For those of you who want to keep up
with my brother’s progress here is the link to his facebook page. I try to keep it updated a couple times a
week. Thank you in advance for the
continued prayers! http://www.facebook.com/#!/PrayerChainForEddieWhite
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