How does Jesus Love?

           Our question to Ponder for this week is How does Jesus Love?  We want to love like we love Jesus, and He tells us in Scripture how Love is the greatest, so let’s look to our ultimate model of loving!  If we can open our hearts to let Jesus in, love like Him, let Him love through us, little by little we can perfect our love!  Authentic, genuine love has ripple effects in our lives, it is always on the move!  It enhances our marriages, our home life, our relationships, our work all while increasing our joy, our peace, our mercy, our trust, and our faith.  Who doesn’t want that?

           Jesus’ love is FREE, TOTAL, FAITHFUL, FRUITFUL, SACRIFICIAL, UNCONDITIONAL, COMPASSIONATE, GENTLE, PATIENT, & HUMBLE! (Just to name a few of His love’s characteristics!) Let’s strive for our Love to look and sound like HIS!

Inspired by:

 John 10:17-18  For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again; this charge I have received from my Father.

John 15:13  Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 13:1 Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

John 15:8-9 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. 

John 13:15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

 Pope John Paul II “Every moment, in all the world, including in ourselves, is enveloped in the love of HIS heart which has loved men so much, and to which they have responded so little. For your own part, let us try more.”

St. Teresa of Avila “For the love of the Lord, let us make a real effort!”

 St. Jose Marie Escriva “It is through love rather than study that one comes to understand the things of God.”  

 PRAYER:

Be in our actions, Jesus. Be in our words, Jesus. Be in our hearts, Jesus. “Merciful Father in the name of our loveable Jesus, the Virgin Mary and all the Saints, we ask you to set us on fire with Your Spirit of Love and to grant us the grace of making you deeply loved!  AMEN.”  [Fr. Michael Gaitley]

Photo: Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa in the Vatican City on June 27, 1997. EPA New York Post