John 15:12-13 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus loved us and put our need above his and died for us; then he commanded us to love one another just as he loved us. A good friend of mine asked me the other day, “Pastor, do you think we have people who can love others to the point of dying for them?”. With man’s love, NO, It’s Impossible. But with AGAPE in our heart, YES, there are many. And that is how everyone born of love should live.

Let me tell you of the Scottish missionary, David Livingstone, who was one of the first to bring the gospel to Africa. He was warned by many that the continent is a dark place with plagues and malaria and diseases which had no cure at the time. But he said, “I’d rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God”. He came to Africa and eventually lost his wife through malaria. He himself later suffered from dysentery and malaria and died. During this trying period, when he was asked why he sacrificed so much to bring the gospel to Africa, he said, “People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a PRIVILEGE.”

It is THE LOVE OF GOD which will put other people’s life and interest ahead of yours, even to the point of dying because of them. Love will make men embark on a journey which they know might kill them but still embark on it and die for it anyway. LET GOD’S LOVE DRIVE AND LEAD YOU. Amen!

                GRACEFUL MORNING