Love like Jesus. Continued...

Ohh! well I should be studying Geo right now... But seeing as how I was not able to get the text book that I need to study the material from for the test tomorrow... I'm just gonna post, and then study my notes that I have from that class... so anyways.. It will all be good.. :-) YAY! WOOT!! Woohoo!! la lala.... Ok yeah... anyways.. its not really a big deal tho... cause this class is uber easy..

So anyways... hrmm, yah as I heard this song on the radio at Kenley's Cumberland house today.... lol yes. This is gonna be another "What God taught James today while working at Kenley's..." so if you don't care to hear about that, then you can stop reading now.. caues that is what it is from here on out.. :-) Ok anyways.. so I've been thinking about Nicole's 2nd to last post lately.. the one about Loving people like Jesus would... and I've come to a few conclusions.. but before I can say all that, I need for you all to see this song by Jeremy Camp real quick.. You all have heard it and prolly know it well..



In only a moment truth was seen
Revealed this mystery
The crown that showed no dignity he wore
And the king was placed for all the world to show disgrace
But only beauty flowed from this place

Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands
Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands

He held the weight of impurity
The Father would not see
The reasons had finally come to be, to show
The depth of His grace flowed with every sin erased
He knew that this was why he came

Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands
Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands

And we just don't know
The blood and water flowed
And in it all He showed
Just how much He cared
And the veil was torn
So we could have this open door
And all these things have finally been complete

Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands
Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands,
From his hands, from his hands, from his hands...


Ok, wow... yeah, that is loving like Jesus. Something we must ask our selves... WOULD you take His place? Would you be willing to sacrifice everything for the lives of other people...people that hated you. would you be willing to say: Ok, my plans for a career, my plans to get married, my relationsip with my girlfriend/boyfriend is not as important to me than the lives of all the other people in the world that don't even know you exist. and when you die for them they still won't know that you had just saved them... their lives will go on because of you. but they will not care nor pay it any heed... And they will reject your sacrifice when they find out about it, and say, What a fool! Knowing this, now would you let someone put you up against a wooden wall, and hammer NAILS through your wrists, and then through the bone of your feet...crushing and splintering it as the metal spikes go through... and then you will hang there bleeding to death... unable to breath because your arms are stretched above you so tightly...the only way to then get a breath, is to push your WHOLE body weight aginst that nail that has stapled your feet to the wall. Now when the pressure is off your arms, you can take a gasping breathe... Then the pain of holding your self up against the steel of the nails through your feet, becomes too much, you let your self fall... but your do not fall for long...You are caught with a JOLT by the nails in your wrists...they tear and RIP the wholes in your arms even more as you come to a sudden stop... the pain is SO much at times, that that you nearly pass out... In this condition you will hang...by the nails...for HOURS, untill finally...your drown...yes you will drown...not in water... in air... you will try to breath, but the pain of pushing yourself up is now too much to even bear... and so you let yourself sufocate..

Would you take the place of this man? Would you? for to be willing to do this, is to love like Christ... Sounds impossible, right? Well on our own it is... Without the spirit of God in us, breaking away our selfish nature, we would not be able to do this.. Why? because it would be against everything that made sense to us... what would convince us to do it? gun point? No, of coarse not! Shoot me instead... Only the supernatural LOVE of God in our lives could convince us that we should do this... But still, we all have that Love in our lives.. so what is the problem? the problem is that we are not totally surrendered to the Almighty will of our Lord... We are still holding onto our lives, thinking that they belong to us... They do not however. They came from God, and back to Him they must go...THIS is what it means to be surrendered to the cause of Christ... Its just like Tamara reminded me the other day: We CANNOT live out the love of Christ. Thats just a fact.. It is impossible to do.. We must let Him live it out through us...

To Love others like Jesus, is to be willing to live the life that Jesus lived.

Would you take the place of this man?