Have you head this statement before? Love others like Jesus did? That is a nice thought. But I have it on good authority that it is actually completely impossible.
When I was 17, I had a desire to love others. I wanted people to feel the love of Jesus through me. One evening as I was lying in bed, I asked God, “Can you help me love others like you do?” He answered in an unexpected way.
It was like a dream, but I was fully awake. I didn’t hear a voice as much as I FELT His voice speak to me. “I will show you MY love.”
Instantly I saw faces. Friends, family, and acquaintances. Their faces started flashing before my eyes, but then the vision started rushing. Faster and faster, faces started flashing before me. Hundreds and probably thousands of people of every age and every race. It was so fast that I could barely breathe, yet I saw each one. I saw each of their faces and looked into each of their eyes. They were strangers to me, yet my heart was aching. With each new face the ache grew and took over. Soon I was sobbing and covering my face with my hands, yet the faces continued flashing in my mind. When I thought I couldn’t cry any harder, it suddenly all stopped.
I was breathing hard. My face was soaked with tears. And then I felt His voice again.
“THAT is how much I love. THAT is how I love every single person in this world, that has ever lived or ever will live. THAT is how much I love you.”
I realized in that moment that I can’t love LIKE Jesus. No one can. But HIS love is always there. He sees each and every person and loves them more than we can possibly imagine.
Ive found best way to give love is to rest in HIS love. I can’t possibly hold it all. HIS abundant, never ending, over powering love will overflow to others.
This video I found comes the closest to what I saw, only what I saw was 10x faster, but it still makes me cry. Video credit to jaray42.
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