What would Jesus do? Taken from:The Word For Today UCB

Do you complain when your friends let you down? Do you keep score about gift giving, initiating phone calls or picking up the bill? Are there times when you feel you give more than you get? Jesus experienced these things - and more! His closest friends let Him down. They were unreliable and immature. They learned slowly and always the hard way. One even betrayed Him. Yet He forgave them and loved them anyway. Listen:'...having loved His own...He loved them unto the end' (John 13:1). Jesus loved Hid friends, but not because they were worthy of love. His love made them worthy! In knowing God, J I Packer writes, 'There is tremendous relief in knowing that God's love for me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst in me. No discovery can disillusion Him in the way i'm so often disallusioned about myself  or quench His determination to bless me. There is cause for humility in the thought that He sees all the twisted things about me that others don't see. Indeed He sees more corruption in me than i see myself. Yet He want to be my friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me to realise this purpose.' So the next time a friend lets you down, remember God's grace. Use His Son as your role model and ask yourself, 'What would Jesus do?'.

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