No other love like His

I think today i've really grasped the meaning of love towards others. I think there have been many times in my past where i've tried to justify treating those who i love crappy because they've treated me the same. I learned that love doesn't change, even when people do.

The perfect example of that would be Jesus on the cross, watching his people spit on him and beat him and mock him and bruise him. When I look at Christ, and how he showed true love for others, I feel ashamed. How can one justify hating or treating somene poorly when Christ loved all of us horrible sinners? He even loved those who seized him, and nailed him to the cross. Could I do that? Could I love the one who nailed my hands and feet to a cross? Could I love the one who looks at me with hate, the one that has no ounce of love back for me? Love is not love if it changes upon circumstances.

If I were to imagine my family and the ones i love turning against me, and seeking to kill me... I'm not sure how greatly that would hurt me. I'm not sure if I could bear it. Christ felt that pain. I've never really seen the cross from this perspective. Christ loved deeply and truly even when those he loved sought to kill him. He never stopped. He never got angry and removed himself from the cross and told them what He deserved, how he was being treated unjustly.. Nothing. He just asked the father to forgive them because they didn't understand what they were doing. They didn't understood the magnitude of the love Christ had for His creation.

How can I take after Christ's example? I can love deeply and truely for those who do not understand, and for those who can not grasp Christ's sacrifice. I can pray to God, asking Him for his mercy upon their lives... For they do not understand. I can pray for His word and his conviction to show them their deeds, and how His love through the cross and his sacrifice, can cover all their sins. How could a generation of "Christians" look upon what Christ did for us on the cross, and not be moved? I'm sure the father was moved as he looked upon his son, dying on a cross for a sin filled people that he truly and throughly loved. Can my love for others bring me to that very decision that Christ made? Would I be willing to lay down my life for those that Christ loves?

Lord, change me and mold me.

Lets be like Jesus, lets love like He loved.

<3 Kaitlin.