{"id":2041,"date":"2022-08-31T01:24:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T01:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:26:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:26:04","slug":"commanded-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/commanded-to-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanded to Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Wednesday,\u00a0August 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commanded to Love <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. <\/em><strong>John 13:34<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Love is almost certainly the most misunderstood word in the world. Jentezen Franklin says, \u2018We dilute its meaning by overuse: \u2018I love my wife, I love my country, I love pizza.\u2019 In the God\u2019s Word, however, love is commanded. That is what Moses told the nation of Israel: \u201cI command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways\u201d (Deut. 30:16). Jesus said that the greatest commandment is to \u201clove the Lord your God\u201d (Mark 12:30). And in today\u2019s verse we are given \u2018A new commandment I give you, that you love one another (John 13:34).<\/p>\n<p>How can God command love? Because love is a choice. God is the supreme display of love. \u2018Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony.\u2019 (Colossians 3:14) Notice those two small words, \u2018clothe yourselves\u2019. Like you choose the clothes you wear each day, you choose the attitude you will display.<\/p>\n<p>Today consider the opportunities you have to obey God\u2019s command to love? Honoring parents by caring and providing for them? Ministering to someone in need? Offering a gracious and kind word to someone who is difficult to love? Whatever it is, we are commanded to love and in doing so demonstrate the love of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday,\u00a0August 31 Commanded to Love A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. John 13:34 Love is almost certainly the most misunderstood word in the world. Jentezen Franklin says, \u2018We dilute its meaning by overuse: \u2018I love my wife, I love my country, I love pizza.\u2019 In the God\u2019s Word, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}