Together: A 5-Day Prayer for Unity Among BelieversSample

The Perfect Model

How does God teach us to love? His very nature is wrapped up in holy, consuming love—revealed in His Son, Jesus Christ. In all His actions and words, Jesus, the perfect image of the Father, became the only tangible display of true love that the world has ever known. Completely God and yet completely man, Jesus taught humanity how to love perfectly— love with our hands, feet, mouths, and hearts.

Love is Jesus sitting with and talking to a prostitute and extending grace instead of judgment. Love is praying for your enemies and giving them food and drink. Love is leaving the ninety-nine sheep to pursue the one that is lost. And love is Jesus'  ultimate sacrifice of laying down His life for God's children.  

Jesus Christ showed us the essence of love: a sinless man bearing the sins of the world so that humanity could be free, forgiven, and righteous.

Jesus is our perfect teacher and model. God asks us to be like Him: holy and full of love for one another. We are to bask in His love and learn about it so that we are driven to imitate Him.

Prayer
Jesus, thank You for teaching us how to love one another. Help me to grow in understanding and experiencing Your love, so that my life increasingly reflects Yours.