Knowing Him Daily

23.June.2026

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13

That is the standard Jesus set, and He did not set it from a distance, because Paul makes it clear that He met it personally: “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8 While we were yet sinners. Not after we cleaned up, not after we showed promise, not after we earned a moment of His consideration, but while we were still the very thing that required His sacrifice in the first place.

That is love that cost something, and it cost everything.

Here is what I want you to consider as we close out this week: for most of us, carrying the gospel to the people around us does not cost us anywhere near that much, and if the worst we encounter is someone rejecting us or walking away uninterested, that is honestly nothing, a moment of discomfort in exchange for an eternal opportunity, and we should be willing to absorb that without flinching.

There are believers in other countries for whom sharing Jesus is genuinely dangerous, where the sacrifice is real and the consequences are severe, and my hat comes off to every single one of them without reservation, because they are modeling love that costs something in a way most of us in the United States have never been asked to, and their obedience shames our excuses into silence.

But wherever you are and whatever God has called you to, the biggest key is to stay mindful, stay in His word, and listen for His voice, because His voice sounds like His Word and the Gospel itself is not complicated, it is simple, and we make it harder than it has to be when we overthink it or wait until we feel fully prepared or qualified, because the qualification was never ours to earn.

John puts the bottom line plainly: “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.” 1 John 3:16-18 zNot in word. Not in tongue. In deed and in truth, which means love that costs something, even if what it costs you is small, is still the assignment.

You have spent a week reading about people who stopped, who stayed, who went, who obeyed immediately and changed someone’s eternity because of it, and now it is your turn, and the person God is thinking of as you read this sentence already has a face and a name and a need, and you already know who they are.

Don’t make it harder than it is. Go.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.