As Christians, we often underestimate the importance of “love” in our Christian walk. We focus on faith, on serving others, on being kind to others, on leading lives of integrity, but rarely do we stop to consider the amount of “love” in our lives.
I won’t spend too much time considering why this is the case, but it could be because we’re saturated and overwhelmed with messages about “love” from just about everywhere— regardless of the extent to which they reflect true love.
When Jesus was asked about the greatest commandment, he replied that it was a commandment about love… to love God, and to love others as yourself (Luke 10:27). When Jesus was telling His disciples to reflect Him, He told them to love one another; people would know that we are His disciples when we love one another (John 13:35)! This gives me the impression that this is such a rare occurrence! When we truly love one another, the world will know what we are His disciples! Doesn’t this infer, that apart from Him, we do not have the capacity for such love?