Jesus' Love and Ours

As Love Month comes to an end, I think it's prudent to reflect on what kind of love we're celebrating and how we ought to celebrate it. Jesus said "A new commandment I give unto you [His disciples], That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." John 13:34

We are celebrating the kind of love Jesus has, and we celebrate it by expressing the same kind of love for others. That's why I've been blogging about what sort of love Jesus has and how He shows it. He is our exemplar. We are to follow His example, and the greatest example He gave us is His pattern of love. Jesus Christ was motivated almost entirely by His love of God and His love of others. We should be, too.

We should exercise Christlike love toward everyone, even those whom we don't understand or agree with. We should even exercise Christlike love toward those who require justice and judgement, when such judgement is ours to pass. We should try to be like our Savior in everything we do and say, and nearly everything He did and said was motivated by love. We should follow in His footsteps and motivate most, if not all, of our actions with love.