Love

I feel very few in the Church understand what it means to receive each other, to really love each other. We simply just don't know the depth of God's heart - the magnitude of His love. We are supposed to love each other the same way Christ loved us…To receive each other the same way Christ received us…What does that really look like? How did Christ receive us? How selfless was His Love? Christ was humbled to the point of no reputation, and lived a completely selfless life devoted to mankind for the purpose of reconciliation to the Father. He died and for a moment was separated from His father. If that same Spirit and that same Love dwells in us and is the source of all our relationships - How come our Love for each other doesn't represent such selflessness? Paul expressed this love in Romans 9. He basically wished that he was separated from Christ for the sake of his brother's salvation. Ring a bell? Sounds like Jesus: "Father, why have you forsaken me!" Jesus was the one who played out the Father's love. I don't have any words to express how deep His love is supposed to be between us. The destiny for the church is supposed to see the magnitude of the vertical love of the Father overflow horizontally. No one is supposed to be in need, in any way. It's supposed to be a joy to carry each other's burdens. He wants His love to be expressed between us. Humble us Father, and remove our names. Philippians 2:5-7 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.

Romans 9:
I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh,

Romans 15 
Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 8:3-5
For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing, imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. And not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God.