Ray NoahGod, I Want to Love Like Jesus Loved – Ray Noah https://raynoah.com Faith In Motion Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:15:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 1205010 God, I Want to Love Like Jesus Loved https://raynoah.com/2018/12/03/god-i-want-to-love-like-jesus-loved/ https://raynoah.com/2018/12/03/god-i-want-to-love-like-jesus-loved/#respond Mon, 03 Dec 2018 08:01:02 +0000 Ray Noah http://raynoah.com/?p=27735 52 Simple Prayers for 2018

Jesus summed up God’s requirements in two straightforward commands: first, I am to love God with my entire being—my spirit, of course, but also my intellect, my emotions, and my body, then second, I am to love my fellow man just as I would love myself. Now it’s not the first command that you and I struggle with—at least not in principle. It’s the second—love for God is one thing, but loving others is what gives us fits. Yet scripture is clear that we cannot truly love God without fully loving people who were made in God’s image. Likewise, when we are loving people selflessly and sacrificially, then we are authenticating our love for God. This is our calling as Christ-followers: to fully love God by fiercely loving people!

“ This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

— 1 JOHN 3:16
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A Simple Prayer To Love Like Jesus Loved:

God, I have declared my love for you countless times, but I have not equally demonstrated the authenticity of that love by sensitively, compassionately and selflessly loving those around me in ways that they would recognize as true love. Forgive my neglect, and help me to allow the kind of love you have for me to be demonstrated toward others. May I be real life proof of your love throughout this day.
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