1 Corinthians 13 - How Jesus loves you
Main Idea: Reciprocate the incredible love your Savior has for you.
JESUS LOVES YOU IN THE MOST MEANINGFUL WAY (vs. 1-3)
- He intentionally, personally cares for you as an individual.
- He is undistractedly concerned with your life and your soul.
- The goal of His love isn’t praise or status, but a relationship with you.
JESUS LOVES YOU IN THE FULLEST WAY (vs. 4-7)
- He is unflinchingly faithful in the face of your sin.
- He is warmhearted and gentle towards you.
- He carries no resentment towards you.
- He humbly seeks your good, without boasting, arrogance, or rudeness.
- He isn’t urged to ill-will by your sin, which He forgives and does not tally.
- He rejoices when you walk with God, and doesn’t encourage your failure.
- He will endure every heartbreak, question, and sin you walk through.
- He confidently trusts in you always, that you can walk in His Spirit.
- He will keep His relationship with you based on His work, not yours.
JESUS LOVES YOU IN AN ENDLESS WAY (vs. 8-13)
- He will succeed every day in loving you.
- His love will last into eternity, far beyond your best efforts.
- His love is more fundamental and real than any victory or failure you have.
- He loves you fully, and knows you fully, including your future choices.
- His love is the greatest truth and reality that we will ever encounter.
Sermon Transcript (Auto-Transcribed by Apple Podcasts)
When we think about love, so many different thoughts can come into our minds.
We can think about the love that we have for our parents, for our siblings, we can think about the love of a spouse, we can think about the love that we have for the Ravens who finally got their act together.
We can think about love that we have for maybe a favorite coworker or something like that. But today, as we start off kind of this series on love, we're looking this Sunday at the love that God has for us.
We're going to look in two weeks at the love that we're called to have for one another as Christians. And then that last week, we're going to be looking at the love that we're called to have for the lost. It all stems from the love of God.
Charlie earlier, as we were flipping through our pages, he was like, man, there's too many God's love songs in here. And it was intentional because when we think about the love that we have, it all has to come from God.
He is our basis of what it means to experience love. Because the truth is every form of human love will fail us.
Unfortunately, in this room, though parents are called to love their kids, I know that there are people in here who were unloved or abused or mistreated by the people in their life that were supposed to most care for them.
There are people in this room that you have had to experience the loss of love with a spouse.
And what a sadness that that was in your life, that though together at the marriage altar, you said till death do us part, something besides death eradicated that relationship that you once held.
Many of you have experienced having a kid that's in kind of a prodigal situation or a kid that doesn't want to have a relationship with you. And many of us have had friends come and go through the years.
So what is the true, what is the lasting love, what is love supposed to look like? The answer is it's supposed to look like the love of God. And today we are in 1 Corinthians 13.
Our small groups not long ago just went through the book of 1 Corinthians together. And so you all kind of know some of the background of this book, that this was a church that the Apostle Paul had started in the city of Corinth.
It was an incredibly affluent area. There was lots of trade that went in and out of the city of Corinth. And the church itself was incredibly gifted in so many ways.
As you think about the most amazing spiritual gifts that a person could have, this church had the whole lot of them. And you can read through that in 1 Corinthians 12. And you can see all of the amazing works that people were doing.
And not only that, but they also had several teachers of the Word of God. So much so that they built little clicks around, well, I like Paul as the teacher of the Gospel the best. I like Cephas the best.
You had some of the super spiritual ones that were like, well, I like Jesus the best. And there was this in-fighting that was happening within this local church.
And so, though they had a great mission field, and though they were personally gifted, the church was in great trouble. And the church was in great trouble because they had forgotten the most essential ingredient in any church, love.
The Apostle John would tell us, Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone that loves has been born of God and knows God. The one that does not love does not know God, for God is love.
Now there's a definition of love in our world today, which is just, I accept you wholesale, and you should never adjust anything about yourself. You are just fine the way you are. That's not the kind of love that God has for us.
Even as we just observed the Lord's Supper, we remember the fact that though God loves us entirely, completely, so much so that He would die for us, He had to die for us because there was an aspect of us that needed to change. We have all sinned.
We have thought and said and done things against the law of God. And so Jesus had to come and die for us because of His love for us.
In 1 Corinthians 13 in particular, Paul says, Corinthian Church in verse 31 of chapter 12, he says, listen, desire the greater gifts.
So as he's talked through about prophets and teachers, miracles, gifts of healing, helping, leading, various kinds of languages, miracles, he says, not everyone has the same gift.
And you guys can keep on wanting to have the greatest showmanship within your local body of believers of, I really think that Laurie is something special because she can speak any language with any person that comes in.
Or maybe Kathy is amazing because she can do balloon animals like no other person. You can fight about who has the greatest gift and who gets to, if you will, be the big man in charge of the church.
He says, but there is a much, much better way to live and to walk. And it is the way of love.
And as we look through this chapter in Paul's admonition, first to the church in Corinth, but secondly today to Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2025, he is calling us to reciprocate the incredible love that our Savior has for us.
To reciprocate the incredible love our Savior has for us. We're gonna walk through this passage, and I'll be honest with you guys, even in my study this week, I was moved over and over and over again with two realizations.
Number one, Jesus loves me incredibly, completely, fully. And I fail each and every day in showing that even to the people around me. I fail in showing it to my family.
I fail in showing it to my church. But as I realized that love doesn't just, it's not an emotion, or in the words of one song, it's not a second-hand emotion. It's not some temporary thing.
Love is from the heart of God, flowing into and through his people, that over and over again, we need to say, God, you have loved me. I'm going to choose to love and walk in love towards others. Will you pray with me?
We're going to walk through the passage, and we'll see what love is, specifically from how Jesus loves us. Dear Lord, thank you for today. Lord, you know our hearts.
God, you know that in so many ways we fail you. We fail to represent or to image you well. And God, I think there's probably not an area in which we fail you more than in our love for each other.
God, as we look at your word even this morning, may you remind us how deeply we are loved and how the only acceptable, the only logical response is to pass on that love to others and to love you.
Lord, we pray today that if there's someone here that doesn't know you as their Savior, they have never personally experienced the love of God in salvation.
God, I ask that today would be the day that they experience your love as their Lord and their Savior. We love you, God, and we pray all of this in your name. Amen.
First today, we're going to walk through, this is a shorter chapter of Scripture, and so we're going to walk through the verses. There's three ways in which Jesus loves us that I can see from this passage.
The first in verses one through three is that Jesus loves us in the most meaningful way. Maybe you guys have received a gift before that was not you. Like if someone were to gift me a puppy, that would not be a meaningful gift.
That would be like, this person hates me. Now you give a gift to like my son B, you give him a puppy, he might be more excited. Evelyn would be super excited.
Don't give it unless you hate your pastor. Even then, don't give it. So, Jesus loves us in a meaningful way.
And then, verses 4 through 7, Jesus loves us in the fullest way that is totally and completely, in every aspect, Jesus loves us. And then, in verses 8 through 13, I can see that Jesus loves us in an endless way.
That though this world will end, though our own lives will meet their physical end, and though even our giftings, the ways in which we serve in the local church, and that we serve one another, even though those gifts will come to an end, the love of
Jesus never comes to an end. So, let's walk through, beginning in verse number 1. It says this, If I speak human or angelic tongues, this is languages, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Here is Paul is talking to the church at Corinth. He's saying, you guys are really excited about the fact that you can speak in these languages that are previously unknown to the speaker.
And you guys are really, really proud of this gift that you have. But he says, if you don't have love for other people, if you will, you love the gift God has given you more than you love the people that God has given you the gift for.
He says, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. It's if you just keep going like this. I'm so sorry, Charlie.
I tried to be gentle with it. If I just keep doing that for hours on end, that's not that's not music. It's not a beautiful noise.
Now, if Charlie got up, he could probably do like a drum solo or something that would sound good. But here what Paul is saying is, I'm just an annoying sound the longer I go on. I think of my life.
There is a fear of God in me that I never want to have, whether it's my preaching, my singing, my teaching. I do the Tabernacle Talk Bible Study podcast.
I never want to get to a spot where I love the stuff I'm doing more than the people that God has called me to do it for. I don't want to get to the end of my life.
I don't want to reach that beam-of-seat judgment and stand before my God and say, here's the works that I did for you, God. And for him to say, that was all noise. That was for you.
That was for your pride. That had nothing to do with a love for Roger. It had nothing to do with a love for Myron.
It was just about you. Can I ask you, in your life, as you are seeking to serve and to use the gifts God has genuinely given you, do you love the gift itself or do you love the person that the gift is for?
And as I think about Jesus, he's the total opposite of this. Instead of him doing his miracles for the sake of being praised or being adored, he did it for love of the individual.
I've heard Owen say many times how as Jesus did many of his miracles, he told the person that he healed, don't tell anyone that I did this. Go, you know, talk to the priest, let them sign off on, yes, this person is genuinely healed.
He says, don't make a big noise about it because Christ wasn't in it. Even for his own glory, he was in it for love of the person. And that wasn't just true while Christ was here on earth.
It's true for you today that Jesus intentionally, personally cares for you as an individual. If you were the only person that Jesus had to die for, he would have died for you.
Can I ask you how were you going to intentionally, personally care for another person even this week?
Secondly, in verse number 2, he says, if I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
Paul says, I can be the biggest Bible nerd that there has ever been, and I can have all the faith in the world, and I can send Mount Everest into the Mariana Trench, but if I don't have love, all of my knowledge and all of my confidence in God is
worth nothing. He says there, I am nothing. Here, instead of being concerned about what the Corinthians know and what the Corinthians believe God can do, Paul encourages them, have a care for people who you are. Here, he says, I am nothing.
If you're seeking attention, if you're seeking greatness within your own life, you're missing the point. The point isn't how great can you be? Can you be the most knowledgeable?
Can you be the most filled with faith? The goal is, are you filled with the love of God? Jesus, in his life towards us, he is undistractedly concerned with our life and our soul.
Instead of being concerned with amassing all of the knowledge, and instead of worrying about what he can be, Jesus is concerned with who you are. He's concerned with loving you each and every day.
And that's what he calls for us to do for others as well. The more time that we spend trying to build our own kingdoms, our own status, the less time that we are spending actually loving or caring for other people.
In the third verse, he says, If I give away all of my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Think about that. You can be the most charitable person in the world.
You can give away all of your extra clothes other than the ones you're wearing on your body. You can give away your house. You can give away all of your vehicles.
You can give all of your bank account and gain nothing. If it is not done for love, you can be a martyr and give your body over to be burned so that you can say, yeah, I get to the pearly gates. God, I was a martyr.
Wasn't I something? But if it is not done for love, he says, I gain nothing. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get before my God, that I have crowns to cast at his feet.
Even as Paul earlier in the book has talked about, all of our works will be tried, whether it's gold, silver, and precious stones, or if it's wood, hay, and stubble, that as it goes through the fire of God's purging, we want to be able to see, yes,
these works were done for love. They were done for care of others. They were done for the work of the gospel. And it was not done for me.
Can I ask you? In your life, do you do what you do to gain status? Do you do what you do so that others will give you a nice pat on the back and be like, listen, Laurie, you're really something.
Jen, you're just the greatest. I love you. Do we do what we do to be seen by people?
Or do we do what we do because we genuinely love someone else? If no one else in the church, if none of your friends, if no one in the community knew what you were doing in kindness or love for someone else, would you still do it?
This is what I see even in the Sermon on the Mount, is Jesus thinks about the Pharisees and the way that they lived their lives.
He says, when you are going to give something to the poor, when you're giving alms, he says, don't even let your right hand know what your left hand is doing.
He says, the Pharisees, they go and they get the coins and they make a big plink in the giant collection pot that they had. So everyone would know, these Pharisees, man, I'll use Nicodemus' name. Nicodemus just gave this giant amount.
How wonderful Nicodemus must be to love the poor in this way. But Jesus says, listen, hide it even from yourself and how you're doing it, that as you give and you care and you love in secret, your father who sees you in secret will reward you openly.
You can see in there, the goal of Jesus' love isn't praise or status, but a relationship with you. If no one knew that you were feeding another person or meeting a need, would you still do it?
Secondly, today, not only does Jesus love us in the most meaningful way, a way that's not concerned about his own status, but a way that's concerned about you, but Jesus loves us in the fullest way. This tells us actually what love entails.
I'm going to read through these verses, because there's several things listed here. Love is patient. Love is kind.
Love does not envy. It is not boastful. It is not arrogant.
It's not rude. It's not self-seeking. It is not irritable, and it does not keep a record of wrongs.
Love finds no joy in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things. It believes all things.
It hopes all things. It endures all things. I noticed here a couple of things as we walk through those verses.
Each one of these steps is something that we can recognize in the love of Jesus for us. First, love is patient. That Jesus is unflinchingly faithful in the face of your sin.
That despite yours and I's constant provocation of our God, that every day in our thoughts and our words and our actions, we do wrong by our God, He does not treat us as our sins demand, but instead He is faithful and patient towards us, even in the
face of our sin. Can I ask you, are you patient with others who sin against you? Do you treat other people like their misdeeds demand? Or do you have forgiveness and forbearance in your heart just as our Lord has for you?
Secondly, love is kind. Jesus has kindly affection for you. He is warm-hearted and gentle towards you.
One of the kind of sad things that I've often heard, you know, kind of growing up in church was, listen, I love them, but I don't like them. Now, I get it.
I have toddlers, and I'm like, listen, I would die for you, but right now, I don't want to hang out around you. But in that moment, though, yes, I have a commitment of love that I have towards them, I'm not actually being loving.
I'm not loving them in the way that Jesus loves me. Do you know that there is never a moment of your life where Jesus is not kindly affectioned towards you?
There's never a moment when he thinks of you and goes, oh, I'm not really happy with Shelby or April right now. No, every moment of every day from all eternity paths, we have been in the heart of our father, and he has loved us and cared for us.
That's why he sent his son for us. As Paul says, because God delivered up his own son for us, how will he not with Jesus also freely give us all things? God is warm-hearted and gentle towards you.
Are you kindly affectioned towards others, even those that wrong you? I love this next one. Love does not envy.
It's not rude. It's not boastful. It's not arrogant.
It's not self-seeking. It's not irritable.
The ways in which we interact with one another, that we say, okay, well, you know, Ron maybe has a cooler motorcycle than I have, and so I'm going to envy Ron for his motorcycle, or I am really, really jealous of Teresa's hair color, and I wish I
could dye my hair purple. And so I want to have this. I have this envy. God doesn't envy you.
There's nothing that he's upset about that is good in your life. But when we envy each other, we are in the wrong. When we go, I wish that I had what this person has.
I wish I had the marriage that this person had. I wish that I had the financial riches that this person has. We are not being loving.
God doesn't envy us. And God doesn't envy us because we have nothing that could better him.
The trick from the devil is that he makes us look at other people and go, if you just had what Martha has, if you just have what someone else has, then you would be happy.
But we're told that our God that cares for the sparrows, the God that cares for the flowers, he cares for us and that we are of greater worth than all of creation that he cares for. And we don't trust God, what you have given me is enough.
That is contentment. Here, Jesus carries no resentment towards you. There's no negative feelings towards another's success.
And Jesus humbly seeks your good without boasting arrogance or rudeness. When we think about some of those things that were listed at the end of verse number four and the beginning of verse number five, you can look at love not being boastful.
We've all encountered, we've probably all been the person that we talk about our own greatness and our accomplishments, our pride in what we have done. But Jesus isn't like that. And that's not how he calls us to love others.
Not only is it not boastful, it's not arrogant. It doesn't insist on its own way. Love cares about the good of others.
There's not an exaggerated self-conception of, I'm a really important person. You're a less important person. And so you should bow to my will.
That's not how Jesus even interacts with us. It says love isn't rude. It doesn't behave indecently or in a way that other people go, ooh, I can't believe that they did that or that they said that or that they treated that person that way.
But so often, we fail to be like our God in showing love in a good way towards others. Jesus isn't urged to ill will by our sin, which he forgives and does not tally.
It doesn't matter how many times that you sin, Jesus will never be like, well, now I hate you as a result of what you've done. No, morning by morning, new mercies I see. They're the hymn writer quoting from Lamentations 3.
Jesus isn't urged to ill will by your sin because he forgives you and he does not tally. This is something that so often we fail at, and I know I fail at, where it says love does not keep a record of wrongs.
If I were to ask you about right now, even as I'm talking about love, we can think about Jesus loving your enemies, there's someone that comes to mind, and you have the laundry list of all of the bad things that they've done.
And it would not be difficult for you to remember all of those things. You wouldn't have to think hard about it. You go, oh, no, no, no.
I remember they said this 13 years ago, and they did this action seven years ago. And why just last week they did this. And in our mind, we keep a tally of every time that someone has wronged us.
And we bring it up in our mind, in our memory. But I think of what is said about our God in Psalm 103, that he does not remember our sins anymore. And instead, he's cast them as far as the east is from the west.
And I don't know if you guys know this. If you go north, at one point, you're going to start going south if you keep going in the same direction. But if you go east, you're going to keep on going east forever and ever.
If you go west, you're going to go west forever and ever. How far away our God has cast our failures is from east to west.
And so if even our God chooses to forget our sins that we have committed against an eternal holy God, then how in the world can we not forgive each other?
One of the ways I was listening to two pastors have a discussion on forgiveness and problem-solving and dealing earlier this week.
And one of the things that Pastor Kurt Skelly down in Fredericksburg, Virginia said was, so often, and he was talking to pastors, we can have a thing of, okay, well, I don't like that this person does this and this and this and this, but we're too
scared. And so we don't have the conversation with them until it finally blows up. And then we're like, okay, now I've got my whole laundry list of things that I have against you.
And can I tell you, that doesn't just go for pastors, that can go for your marriage relationship, that you have let things stack up, and because you haven't had the conversation with your spouse, there's a whole laundry list of things that you have
in hatred against the other person. It could be with one of your co-workers or with your boss or with a sibling. Whatever it is, realize your God doesn't keep a tally, a record of wrongs that you have committed.
So we have no right to keep a tally of the wrongs of others. God rejoices, Jesus rejoices when we walk with God, and he doesn't encourage our failure. In reading that verse that he doesn't rejoice in iniquity, but he rejoices in the truth.
Jesus isn't cheering you on when you really lay into that other person. Jesus isn't cheering you on when you got into that immoral relationship. Jesus isn't cheering you on when you just boiled over in your temper and anger versus another person.
He's not cheering on the destruction of your soul and of your relationships. Instead, Jesus rejoices when you walk with God. The challenge for us is, number one, we like our sin.
We like when we fly off the handle. We like when we ignore God and kind of go our own way.
And when we're friends with other people who are also humans and they fall and they walk into sin, sometimes we're guilty of affirming other people in their sin, and we aren't affirming them when they walk in the truth.
Can I challenge you, if we're going to love others as Jesus has loved us, make the choice, I'm going to affirm people. I'm going to encourage people that are walking with the Lord. I'm not going to affirm the sins of other people.
Jesus will endure every heartbreak, every question, and every sin that we walk through. You can think of the verse, He bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Every time that your heart breaks, every time that you are reaching the end of yourself, know that Jesus is with you, and He loves you, and He cares for you through all of it. Who have you given up bearing with in their fallenness?
Jesus confidently trusts in you always that you can walk in His Spirit. It says that He believes all things, and He hopes all things. So often we can become suspicious of others, we think the worst of others, but that's not how God even treats us.
And so may we believe the best of others, may we hope for the best possible interpretation of their words and actions and thoughts. Not look on them with suspicion, but look on them with love.
And then lastly there, Jesus, as He endures all things, He will keep His relationship with you based on His work, not yours. I love that word endure. It means to maintain action in the face of opposition.
So even though there is something coming against Jesus and His love for us, it is our sin, our wickedness, He endures, He keeps His relationship, not based on our perfection, but based on His own. So Jesus loves us in the fullest way.
And then lastly today, Jesus loves us in an endless way. You can see this in verses 8 through 13. Love never ends.
But as for prophecies, they will come to an end. There was going to come that day when no more active prophecies would be given. If you will, there'd be no more future even left to tell.
It says, as for tongues, for languages, this special gift of being able to converse with others in a language that the speaker had not previously learned, these languages, these tongues, they would cease. As for knowledge, it will come to an end.
The ability to even understand or discern certain things based on the Holy Spirit, all of these things were going to come to an end.
He says, all of these gifts that you're so concerned about, these gifts that you're fighting over right now, all of it's going to come to an end.
For Tabernacle, as far as I'm aware, we don't have a whole ton of like prophets, language speakers, the most knowledgeable ones.
I think in our instance, one day, Bryon, whether due to old age, you know, maybe I could have something that would leave me mute and unable to speak, my preaching, it's going to come to an end.
I know we have a ton of people in here that love to cook. Your ability to cook will one day come to an end. For some of you, you are great at being able to fix things.
Your mechanical skills and knowledge, it's going to come to an end. But love never ends. So the goal is way past what your gifts can do, may it be centered around love.
It doesn't say, so right now, stop exercising the gifts God has given you. He says, no, no, no. But do them, not for the love of the gifts, do them for the love of God and the love of people.
He says, we know in part and we prophesy in part. He says, even those of you that are prophesying and you're really proud about that, you only know a part of the picture. And verse 10 says, but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end.
He says, when Jesus comes back, it doesn't matter how great of a prophet you are. What's going to matter is your love for one another.
Verse number 11, when I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child, but when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
He says, when you're insisting on your gifts, your way, your greatness, he says you're acting like a kid. Start doing the mature thing and love other people. It doesn't take a mature person to use their gifts.
It takes a mature person to love other people. He says, for now, we see only a reflection as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully as I am fully known.
He says, right now, we just see a little glimpse indirectly of what God is doing. But on that day, when Jesus returns, or when we're reconciled to him finally at our death and our glorification, we're going to see the fullness of God's love for us.
So he says, don't focus on the here and now, the impartial, what you see indirectly, darkly. Instead, focus on what is eternal. He says, now these three remain, faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love.
Jesus loves us in an endless way, a never failing way. Jesus will succeed every day in loving you. Know every day that goes by, you are loved by God.
Don't ever let the devil tell you that you are unloved. You are loved by Jesus Christ. It was proven on the cross, and you can go back to that time and time and time again.
Jesus' love will last into eternity far beyond your best efforts. Love is better and longer lasting than prophecy, tongues, knowledge, or, if you will, preaching, cooking, mechanical work. Jesus' love is better than all of it.
His love is more fundamental and real than any victory or failure that you have.
All of our best gifts to God, they're temporary and they're limited, but the love that Jesus has for us and the love that he calls us to, it stems from the Trinity, that from all eternity past, the Father has loved the Son, has loved the Spirit, has
loved the Father, and that love that they have shared together is what we are enveloping. Jesus loves us fully and knows us fully, including your future choices.
So never think that, okay, God did love me before I really messed up, before I blew up that situation, but now he doesn't love me. No.
Jesus knew when he died on the cross, every sin you would ever commit, and he still died for you because he loves you. You are his child, his choice possession. And then lastly, love is the greatest truth and reality that we will ever encounter.
Love will outlast faith because there's going to come a day when no more faith is needed. Our faith is made sight, as it is well with my soul says.
Love will outlast hope because we will see all promises fulfilled, and there'll be nothing left to hope for. It's all been realized. But into all eternity, we will experience the love of God forever.
Can I ask you today, if God loves us in this way, by what right do we choose to hold on to bitterness and hatred and unforgiveness and a lack of love towards others? We have no right. If God has so loved us, we ought to love one another.
Today will you reciprocate the love that God has for you? Will you pass it on to other people? Those that are undeserving, just as we were undeserving of Jesus' love.
But if Jesus did it for us, we can do it for others.
And today, if you don't know Jesus as your Savior, if as I've talked through the multitude of ways in which Jesus loves you, if you've never personally accepted that for your own heart and life, I encourage you, we're going to be singing a song, God
So Loved the World, taken from John 3, 16 in just a moment. Our elders are going to be up at the front.
They would love to pray with you, open a Bible, show you how you can know for sure that you have a relationship with God, that Jesus is your Savior and your Lord.
Or if you'd like to talk a little more, maybe later in the week, I'd love to talk with you at any time. Talk with me right after service, we'll set up an appointment, and I want to encourage you.
Jesus' love is the most fundamental thing in my life and in yours. We fail to love in the way that we should, but even as we've seen how Jesus loves us, may this next week, may we take steps towards loving others as Jesus has loved us.
