How did Jesus love?

“So I give you now a new commandment: Love each other just as much as I have loved you. John 13:34 TPT
https://bible.com/bible/1849/jhn.13.34.TPT

How did Jesus love? To answer this we must read the gospels thoroughly. The easy answer is: He died on the cross for theirs and our sins. Yet Jesus walked with them for three years. How did He treat them? We have an example in this very chapter when Peter professes he will follow Jesus even to death. Jesus comes back with: "Will you lay down your life for Me? I assure you a rooster will not crow until you have denied Me three times" . So, we know Jesus confronted unreality with truth, He did not let it pass. In the next chapter Thomas said," Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?" Jesus replies with, " I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me ". Jesus engages but also speaks to the bigger picture. It confuses Thomas. Phillip asks to see the Father. Jesus replies, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father."Jesus does not make it easy for the team, yet He tells them bigger things, and challenges their hearts and minds. 

Can we love like this? Perhaps not. Underneath was a love that did not judge. Well, we can do that! I know this is a good place for me to start. There was no selfishness in Christ. I have some work to do!


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