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Monday, April 20, 2009
To die for
A young teenage girl was diagnosed with a rare blood disease. The doctors gave her only one hope of surviving until her sixteenth birthday. She needed a blood transfusion from a donor with a perfect match. After and intensive search of blood donor database, it became apparent that the only viable donor for the girl was her six-year-old brother, David.
The parents sat down with David and said, "Son, your sister is very sick. The only way she will get better is if we take out some blood out of your body and put it into hers. Would you be willing to do that?" David was very quiet at first and asked his parents if he could take a walk to think about it. The boy walked outside and paced up and down the sidewalk while his parents watched through the front window. Finally, he came back inside and said, "I'll do it. I'll do it because I love my sister.
The next day, doctors connected David and his sister to a machine. David and his sister lay down side by side as the life-giving blood began to flow. Dad sat next to David, and Mom sat next to sister. After about five minutes, the little boy turned to his father and said, "Dad, when do I die?"
David thought giving blood to his sister meant that he would die, and yet he was still willing to help his sister. This little boy illustrated the greatest love of all. He was willing to give his life. He was willing to die so that someone else could live.
In John 15:9-17,
9"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
10If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.
11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
12My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
14You are my friends if you do what I command.
15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
17This is my command: Love each other.
In the passage above, Jesus challenged us with a new command to have the same love for each other as this little boy had for his sister. Jesus did not command us to do something that He was not willing to do Himself. The very next day, He would willingly allow Himself to be beaten and crucified for us so that we could live. He asks us to follow His example and love others as much that we would be willing to die for them.
Love is not a feeling. Love is an unselfish act or acts that you do for someone else with no thought of what will happen to you or what reward you might receive.
People will be drawn to Jesus when we live out this kind of love.
It's to die for.