What if Percy Spencer hadn’t been wearing a shirt with a pocket that he could hold his chocolate bar in the day he tested magnetron for Raytheon the microwave oven wouldn’t have been invented. An accidental discovery that has changed how we cook and heat up leftover foods. Have you ever asked “What if we loved others the way God does through Jesus Christ?”
Please read the following passages of Scripture: John 3:16, Matthew 9:36 and 2 Corinthians 5:14-21. Not only did God send his Son but he also shows us his love in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8) Jesus had compassion on the crowds because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Even today Jesus has compassion on people. He lives to intercede for us. He right now is praying for you before His Father’s throne. If you are praying the Holy Spirit is helping you by praying with you. If we are going to love others the way God does, the love of Jesus Christ is going to have to control us. (2 Corinthians 5:14) As I reflect on these verses I am asking the Lord to help me examine my heart because I’m sure that the love of Christ doesn’t alway control me. The Lord Jesus didn’t just save us so that when we die we can spend eternity in heaven with him, he saved us and then commissioned us as his ambassadors to take the message of reconciliation to a lost and dying world. As the love of Christ controls us, our hearts become more like the Lord Jesus himself. He helps us to see the world as he sees the world. He helps us to look at people the way he looks at people. The closer we draw God, the closer he draws himself to us. When we look in the mirror we see that we, just like all the other people around us, are image bearers of the one who made us. Each of us has the ability and opportunity to have a real and intimate relationship with God through Jesus Christ because he has made us with moral, relational and spiritual qualities that reflect him. As you and I draw near to God and God draws near to us, his grace, his steadfast love, his tender mercies, his peace, his love changes us and we are then compelled to love others the way Jesus does because the love of Christ not only controls us but has changed us. Will you ask the Lord to change you so that you can love those with you who find it difficult to love?