There's No Greater Power than the Unconditional Love of Christ

There's no greater power than the unconditional love of Christ. That's what my baby preached on yesterday. He was amazing, as usual, and yes, I am a little biased. I love him so much, and I simply cannot wait to be his wife. 


But I'm not here to rave about my awesome hubby-to-be, even if I could do that all day. I'm here to delve a little deeper into his sermon, and how it spoke to a situation we are personally struggling with. He used the story of the adulterous woman from John 8. 



 ¹But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ²At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. ³The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group ⁴and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. ⁵In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" ⁶They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
   But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. ⁷When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." ⁸Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
 ⁹At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. ¹⁰Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
 ¹¹"No one, sir," she said.
      "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

-John 8:1-11

Dan's "big picture" was this: Do I throw rocks? We all can relate to the woman, bruised, beaten, broken-hearted, ridiculed, etc. We've all been chewed up and spat out by things of this world, and we feel the rocks and judgements that are being thrown at us. But have we ever considered that we throw rocks, too? Whether by word or action or deed, we have all "pointed the finger" at another, saying that they're wrong in their ways. Every single one of us has picked up a rock and thrown it at a brother or sister in Christ.


SO WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THIS? We show unconditional love to all around us. I know, I know. This is easier said than done. Its hard to love someone who is different from us, its hard to love someone who has done us wrong, but we need to LOVE!


For there is NO GREATER POWER than the unconditional love of Christ.


I'm not preaching to the choir here. I live this everyday. We are ministers. We have to deal with people of all shapes and sizes, 24/7-inside and outside of the church. We are teaching ourselves a valuable lesson. One that I am graciously learning with a humble heart. Today, I pray that God will open my heart to love other people, so that I may be a shining example of the great power of Christ's unconditional love.