As we continue our week on loving people well, we're going to fix our eyes on Jesus.

What better example or model for how to love than the one who has laid down his life for the world.

Today, may you catch a glimpse of this beautiful king who loves perfectly. May

you not only get a picture of how you could love others, but experience his incredible love for

yourself afresh. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Everything Jesus did was done out of his perfect love for the Father and us.

Every word, healing, prayer, and action was done out of unconditional devotion.

Ephesians 5, 1, and 2 says,

Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children, and walk in His love as Christ loved

us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Scripture commands us to love others the way Christ did.

Jesus is our model for living, and God never commands us without perfectly equipping us.

If we are to walk in love as Christ loved us, we must believe God will fill us up with

the ability to love as Jesus loved. The concept of living like Jesus has

always seemed unreachable. It often reminded me of the motivational posters that read,

reach for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. But God's word is not an

unachievable suggestion.

His word is perfect and true.

And Scripture says in Romans 829, for those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be

conformed to the image of his son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many

brothers.

God's plan is to conform us into the perfect reflection of Jesus' love.

His plan is to fashion us into disciples who live, work, and love as he did.

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