if you wanna be like Jesus, you gotta love ppl like crazy. & loving like him will probably make you seem crazy cuz when everyone else is walking away, ur the one staying. forgiving. giving grace. & when there’s every reason to walk away, you sit and say “i’m not going anywhere.”
What Jesus did not say: Love one another when it’s convenient, you benefit, and they love you back.
What Jesus did say: Love one another JUST AS I HAVE LOVED YOU.
Loving one another wasn’t a suggestion, it was a commandment. Let’s treat it as such.
I was baptized when I was eight because I was the preachers kid and I felt it was expected of me. Today, I decided spur of the moment to be baptized a second time. I am blessed to be able to proclaim my faith again, this time for the right reasons. I have so much joy, God is good
“The grave could not ignore it, with all of heaven’s roaring. Hell where is your victory? Death where is your sting?
The world cannot ignore it, when all the saints are roaring. Hell where is your victory? Death where is your sting?
Praise the King, He is risen.”
His friend abandoned Him, His mother cried, the crowd mocked Him, and He was nailed to a tree. It was ugly. It was bloody. It was painful.
But it was love.
And the story was not over... Heaven began counting to three.