Walk In Love; Day659

And walk in love, [esteeming and delighting in one another] as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a slain offering and sacrifice to God [for you, so that it became] a sweet fragrance. [Ezek. 20:41.]  Ephesians 5:2

Everyday no matter how we set our mind to be good and to do good, there will be instances that people around us will oppose us [for no reason], or oppose our ideas, or against our abiding principles, or go against our opinions and they start developing hatred towards us.  There is only one thing we can do to diffuse the situation – love them.   We can try something else but the only best remedy is to love them – because if we don’t, we end up developing a disease of hatred inside of us and with the passage of time, this hatred destroys our joy and inner peace.

Someone mistreats you, love them
Someone insults you, love them
Someone wrongfully accuses you, love them
Someone puts you down, love them
Someone is critical about you, love them
Someone dislikes you, love  them
Someone slanders you, love them
Someone steps on you, love them

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0500, End of Sleep,
0510, Coffee
0530, Study Ephesians 5:2 [read more]

Barnes on Eph 5:2 –
And walk in love – That is, let your lives be characterized by love; let that be evinced in all your deportment and conversation; see notes on Joh_13:34.

As Christ also hath loved us – We are to evince the same love for one another which he has done for us. He showed his love by giving himself to die for us, and we should evince similar love to one another; 1Jo_3:16.

And hath given himself for us – “As Christ also hath loved us.” We are to evince the same love for one another which he has done for us He showed his love by giving himself to die for us, and we should evince similar love to one another; 1Jo_3:16. “And hath given himself for us.” This is evidently added by the apostle to show what he meant by saying that Christ loved us, and what we ought to do to evince our love for each other. The strength of his love was so great that he was willing to give himself up to death on our account; our love for our brethren should be such that we would be willing to do the same thing for them; 1Jo_3:16.

An offering – The word used here – προσφορά  prosphora – means properly that which is “offered to God” in any way; or whatever it may be. It is, however, in the Scriptures commonly used to denote an offering without blood – a thank-offering – and thus is distinguished from a sacrifice or a bloody oblation. The word occurs only in Act_21:26; Act_24:17; Rom_15:16; Eph_5:2; Heb_10:5, Heb_10:8,Heb_10:10, Heb_10:14, Heb_10:18. It means here that he regarded himself as an offering to God.

And a sacrifice – θυσίαν  thusian. Christ is here expressly called a “Sacrifice” – the usual word in the Scriptures to denote a proper sacrifice. A sacrifice was an offering made to God by killing an animal and burning it on an altar, designed to make atonement for sin. It always implied the “killing” of the animal as an acknowledgment of the sinner that he deserved to die. It was the giving up of “life,” which was supposed to reside in the “blood” (see the notes on Rom_3:25), and hence it was necessary that “blood” should be shed. Christ was such a sacrifice; and his love was shown in his being willing that his blood should be shed to save people.

For a sweet-smelling savour – see the notes on 2Co_2:15, where the word “savor” is explained. The meaning here is, that the offering which Christ made of himself to God, was like the grateful and pleasant smell of “incense,” that is, it was acceptable to him. It was an exhibition of benevolence with which he was pleased, and it gave him the opportunity of evincing his own benevolence in the salvation of people. The meaning of this in the connection here is that the offering which Christ made was one of “love.” So, says Paul, do you love one another. Christ sacrificed himself by “love,” and that sacrifice was acceptable to God. So do you show love one to another. Sacrifice everything which opposes it. and it will be acceptable to God. He will approve nil which is designed to promote love, as he approved the sacrifice which was made, under the influence of love, by his Son.