We Love One Another

 As His children, we are called to imitate our Father in heaven. We are to be like Him in thought, word, deed, and motive. We are to follow His example and use Him as our role model for our inner life, and our hidden moments... as well as our outer behavior and attitude towards others. Just as God is holy, we are to be holy in all our conduct.
 We are to be God's representatives on earth.  Before He ascended into heaven, the Lord Jesus gave us a new commandment, that We Love One Another in the same way that Christ loved us and gave Himself for us. In Ephesians 5, Paul exhorts all of us to "walk in love." Indeed, the time that the Lord Jesus lived on earth can be described as a life-walk of love, a life which from start to finish was exercised in love. 
 Christ's sacrifice was also a voluntary offering to God, as He walked to the Cross in love. Jesus became a willing victim.
 It is not only in the outshining of our Christian walk that is important as our life crosses the paths of others. God wants the love of Christ to shine forth from our hearts. He wants love to thrive in that secret place of our heart, and within those private thoughts where no other has access to our inner mind and motives.
 May we all walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God.
and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You for the life example of the Lord Jesus. We know we cannot copy Him in our own strength, but we Pray that in the power of the Holy Spirit, we would learn to walk in love, so that we become a beautiful offering that is pleasing to You. In Jesus’ name we Pray, AMEN.