“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35
J
esus repeatedly gives us impossible challenges. He tells us we will do greater things than He did. He tells us to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect. He tells us to love as He loved.
He gives us these impossible challenges so that we will recognize that it’s not about trying harder; it’s about trusting more. The only way these things are possible is if we step aside and turn life over to Him.
It’s a lesson we’re not very good at learning. The world continues to find Christians judgmental and holier-than-thou. They don’t look at us and see Jesus; they see us trying to be like Jesus. They see us trying to do the impossible, and worse, seeming to hold them to impossible standards.
We need to quit trying and start trusting to be blessed.
Nick
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