Day 289 – Love

Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers every sin.

God’s names:

Yeshuwa – Jesus

JEHOVAH – Self-existent, Eternal

Theos – Supreme Divinity

Pater – Father

God’s character:

Love

What the world wants is love. What the world sees is hate. You can’t turn on the news without seeing hate. Occasionally, you’ll hear a feel-good story that makes you believe there is some good in the world. Until you realize the world runs on hate.

Solomon saw what hate did to people, it caused strife. He also knew the benefits of love, covering sin.

Yeshuwa showed the world what love looked like. He showed them by healing their sick, telling them stories, and going to the cross to forgive them of their sins, the ultimate form of love. Everything Yeshuwa did, He did out of love.

What about you? Do you call yourself a Christian? Do you love people the way Yeshuwa loves you? Personally, I don’t know anyone who loves like Yeshuwa loves. His is a selfless love. Most people hang strings on their love. That’s not love. It’s manipulation. It’s selfish instead of selfless.

If Christians truly loved the way Yeshuwa loves, the world would run on love instead of hate.

John 13:34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this everyone will know you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Yeshuwa gave them a new commandment. Why is it new? Didn’t Israel have the Law. Didn’t the Law show them JEHOVAH’S love? No. The Law showed them their sin.

Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” 8 However, sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me every manner of evil desire. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10 The commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 12 Therefore, the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. 13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

Therefore, Yeshuwa gave His disciples a new commandment, not based on sin, but on love.

Yeshuwa came under condemnation from the Pharisees. On one specific occasion, He came against them.

John 5:39 “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 40 However, you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. 41 I do not receive honor from men. 42 However, I know you, that you do not have the love of Theos in you. 43 I come in My Pater’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him. 44 How can you believe, who receives honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes only from Theos? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Pater; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 However, if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

Therefore, the Law shows us our sin, but Yeshuwa shows us love. When we show the love of Yeshuwa to others, then people will know we belong to Yeshuwa and not the world.

Let’s pray: Father, let Your love shine through me in everything I say and do. Don’t let me act like the world through manipulative love, but through the selfless love of Your Son, who loved me by going to the cross and dying for me. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

Copyright © 4 November 2025 by Valerie Routhieaux