The love that we often give to others is conditional. It always has a string or two attached. I'll offer you love, but only if you love me back. I'll treat you well, but only if you're meeting my needs. I'll give love, but only if there is something in it for me. Yet, perfect love, loves without expecting anything in return. Perfect love is sacrificial. Perfect love is others focused. But,how can we love like this? How can we know, in a world that has quite frankly, a messed up idea of what love is, how to truly love like this?
"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers."- 1 John 3:16
It seems as though the answer to learning how to love like this is to know the one in whom perfect love is found, Jesus Christ. The Son of God, who gave up His life to set sinners like you and me free.
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