Bible Texts: 1Cor.13:4-8, Jn.3:16, Matt.27:51-54, Lk.10:19, Ps.12:6, Acts.1:3, 2Pet.1:7, Jas.3:7, 1Pet.3:7-9, Eph.5:25-27, Col.3:7-9, Num.30:7-18
Today is Easter Sunday and I would like you to think of the love of Christ towards you as husbandman and how His love empowers you and must motivate you to become the good and godly shepherd. And very importantly, how the love of Christ at work in you righteously affects your conduct as the man, husband and father.
For God so love the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life (Jn.3:16)
God loves mankind. He wanted to reconcile humanity to Himself and He offered His best, Jesus Christ to die for the world, including you and I, who are the husbandman. And so today, we are celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah!
But what is the significance of Jesus’s love for you and I? The importance is found in 1st Corinthians chapter 13.
If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it, but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always helpful and endures through every circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever. (1Cor.13:3-8) NLT
The manner of love that Christ has given to you is the love that empowers you to demonstrate His character and attitude in all that you do as the man, husband and father. The love of Christ is what helps you to be patient and kind. It empowers you to be humble in heart and submissive to corrections, instructions and advices. It is the love of Christ that makes you to respect others and their opinions. It is the love of Christ that helps you to be accommodating of the weakness, mistakes, errors and strengths of other. It is the love of Christ that empowers you to rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. It helps you to never give up on the promises of God for your life as the man, husband and father. The love of Christ inspires your faith to believe His word for your life. It enables you to forgive and forget the wrong that is done to you. What a love this is!
As you celebrate this season, please, remember that you are the ambassador of Christ. His love is shed abroad in your heart (Rom.5:5). And it is this manner of love that God wants you to live by as you lead as the good and godly man, husband and father. Make this season meaningful. Make it count!
Once again Happiest Easter!
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to engage my spirit, soul and body to love as You would.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, save me from every force that wants to make me act foolishly and unlovingly.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, teach me how to always demonstrate the love of Jesus as the man, husband and father.
FAITH CONFESSION
I engage, extend and manifest the power of the love of Christ in me in all that I think and do because that is the evidence that I am the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen
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Bro. Ebenezer O. Igure
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