Joh 15:12 This is my
commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a
man lay down his life for his friends.
Joh 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I
command you.
Joh 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for
the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you
friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made
known unto you.
We memorialize people that have not only died, but
according to how they died and why they were willing to die. Even
greater is the idea that we memorialize them not just for dying but
for giving their lives or how they lived before they died (lay down
his life).
We are grateful for the ones who died in conflicts in
our nations history but we are even more thankful for how they lived
their lives and then were willing to die to secure the values of
those lives. No man sets out to just die.. but to live and he can be
willing to die to secure the right for others to have the same
freedoms. We bestow the greatest honor upon these heroes when we live
to preserve the freedoms that they gave their lives for.
Jesus said there can be no greater love than for a man
to lay down his life for his friends. This indicates not only dying
but living. If you are willing to live your life for another .. then
dying for them becomes a no-brainer.
I have always associated this verse with Jesus laying
down his life for us. But in reality, Jesus is instructing his
disciples to lay their lives down for one another (v12) then He
demonstrates through His example of both His life and death.
As believers, we give the greatest honor to our Lord
when we live our lives by the example that He left for us in His
life. The overt driving factor evident in the life of Christ is His
Love. Love for God and love for others. Jesus said that we show our
love for God and others by how we lay down our lives for them.
Do you truly love God?? Others?? Does it show in how you
live??
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