“This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.” John 15:12<\/b>
\nI heard this question today: \u00a0“How do we leak Jesus into our environment?” \u00a0I’ve been pondering it all day. I’ve changed it to, “What is the best way to leak Jesus into our environment?”
\nI decided the best way to answer it would be to find the scripture that answers it. \u00a0I started ruffling through the index box in my head. \u00a0There is the Great Commission, go and make disciples (Matthew 28:19). \u00a0No, that’s not it. \u00a0Then I thought of my personal favorite, Mark 12:30-31 love God, love others. \u00a0Getting closer, but still not it. \u00a0Then John 15:12 came to me. \u00a0Love each other the same way I loved you. \u00a0Bingo. \u00a0That’s it, that’s how we leak Jesus into our environment. \u00a0Not only that, it’s the BEST way to leak Jesus into our environment. Love others like He loved us.
\nThink about how Jesus loved us. \u00a0There’s the obvious, He died for us. \u00a0John 15:13 tells us there’s no greater love than to lay your life down for another. \u00a0I’m eternally grateful for that act of love Jesus did for me, no pun intended. \u00a0In fact, that one act of love is what makes leaking Jesus into the environment around us so vitally important. \u00a0We want others to know how much Jesus loves them.
\nWhich is another way Jesus loved us. \u00a0He didn’t discriminate. \u00a0There is no skin color in Jesus’s eye’s, there are only God’s children. \u00a0Jesus doesn’t care how much money we make, He loves us all. \u00a0There is no one who isn’t loved by Jesus, the murderer, the adulterer, the lier, the cheat. He loves us all. \u00a0He died for us all. \u00a0I love that Jesus didn’t discriminate.
\nI love that Jesus didn’t enable people either. \u00a0I always think of the rich young ruler (Luke 18: 18-23). \u00a0Jesus let him make his own choice, and he suffered the consequences of those choices. \u00a0Just like the thief on the cross did (Luke 23:39-43), except he chose better. \u00a0Of course, he didn’t have quite as many choices as the rich young ruler, but as his counterpart on the other cross shows us, he did have a choice.
\nJesus was fun! \u00a0I think often times we miss this in the Scriptures. \u00a0Jesus rejoices a lot, and rejoicing is fun! \u00a0He rejoices when lost sheep are found (Luke 15:5-6). \u00a0He loves putting Satan in his place. (Luke 10:21). \u00a0He loves building faith in his friends (John 11:15). \u00a0And He rejoiced in anticipation of His resurrection (Psalm 16:9, Acts 2:26). \u00a0We can all rejoice about that.
\nJesus is also very witty. \u00a0Think about some of his sayings. Take the log out of your own eye (Matthew 7:4), reallly? How about trying to fit a camel through the eye of a needle (Matthew 19:24)? \u00a0Or straining a gnat and swallowing a camel (Matthew 23:24)? \u00a0Come on, tell me that’s not witty?
\nJesus was also very compassionate. \u00a0We all know the shortest verse in the Bible, “Jesus wept” (John 11:35).
\nYou know what all of this tells us? \u00a0How well Jesus loved. \u00a0He loved so well, that over 2000 years later we’re still talking about it. \u00a0I think Jesus leaked into the environment around Him. \u00a0I also think, if we love others like Jesus loved us, we’ll leak into the environment we’re in today.
\nLet’s leak a little Jesus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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