No greater love can one have than to lay down their life for another. If you desire to be great, be the greater servant. God picks up such a life that was laid down to serve another. The first and greatest commandment is to love God; but the second is like it, love your neighbor as you love yourself. The one command Jesus left to us is to love one another, as He has loved us. We are servants whose master has loved us with the greater love and whose master is the Greater Servant. Shouldn’t we have love for one another?
There is no breach that God cannot mend. Jesus came to heal the brokenhearted. That proclaims that Jesus came to heal the hurt from past relationships – heartbreak. He came to heal the heartbreak that caused one to shutdown or respond poorly to love, making new relationships difficult to maintain. The one, who broke my heart, was reacting from a past heartbreak; so they were not able to respond to my love. In turn I broke a heart because my heart was broken and could not respond to love. Jesus came to stop the domino effect of past relationships that went wrong.
If two people are in a relationship where past hurts from other relationships (be it spouses, other relatives, or friends) are generating hurts between each other; Jesus can heal them all. The healing starts with allowing Jesus to mend our relationship with God. The understanding of what God, through Jesus, has done for us prompts us to forgive others – forgiveness starts the healing process. Jesus came to heal the brokenhearted, and to set at liberty those who are oppressed. If past heartbreaks are oppressing our current relationship(s), the act that Jesus came to do (the cross) sets us at liberty and heals our heartbreaks.
Relationship is something we have with everyone – think about it. We were told to love one another. We were told that it is not enough to love those who love us, but to love our enemy. We are all human beings and we can relate to something about another human being. We interact all the time with other people. In just a moment of time we can be a catalyst to change someone’s outlook about something. We interact; we act with them in such a way that they enter into or get involved in or become engaged in the event – we relate by being active. Wouldn’t be great if that act was an act of love, and what we helped another enter into was love – become involved in love – become engaged in love – be able to relate to love.
God so loved the world, and that should have been enough but it wasn’t, so He gave us of His own begotten Son and whoever believes in Him, as the scriptures teach us, has eternal life. God loved us, so He did not send His Son to blame us and hold us legally responsible for what we have done, but to give us salvation by paying our legal debt. God still loves us; shouldn’t we love one another.
© 2011, Tim D. Coulter Sr.