Was Jesus in that wave?

The past week I noticed so many negative things on Facebook. First, I saw people using Facebook to bash other using choices they made or had to make 20 years ago. I mean is this what we do these days, bring up things from 20 years ago? As adults, we wonder why our kids act the way they do. We need to take a look in the mirror!
 
After seeing and thinking about what I saw on Facebook, I had to ask myself am I’m I showing a positive walk and how to love others or am I acting just like this? Then I had to answer myself and thought no I don’t because I post positive quotes and share positive things, So I was good to go. Well until God said, “How are you showing love at home, in the work place, and while you’re driving?” Yes, the driving one got me. I remembered the last time someone pulled out in front of me which caused a switch to go off (and poor behavior) and my wife always says, “Where was Jesus in that wave.” Then I realized I have some work to do in my walk. We all do and we are not going to be perfect at all. However, if we are wanting things to change in this world we have to step up and start to show some serious love to each other. This goes for non-believers and Christ Followers.

As a Christ follower we have to practice showing love each day because Christ says love others the way I Loved you. He said “A new command I give you: … As I have loved you, so you must love one another,” John 13:34. When Jesus said these words, it was Thursday, the day before he was crucified. Judas had gone into the darkness to betray his Master, and Jesus now turned to his other disciples, calling them his children. A more literal Greek translation would read, “My dear little children, I will be with you only a little longer,” John 13:33.

Then Jesus went on to tell his followers how they would need to relate to each other after he was gone. “Love one another,” he commanded his disciples. By offering a command here, Jesus did not focus on the feeling of love, but on the decision to love. Jesus knew that we would not always feel like loving each other, so he commanded it. Love is first a decision, not an emotion. But a command to love is not easy to obey. That’s why it’s good news to hear that this is a “new command.” What’s new is that Jesus has given us a model for this love through his own ministry. We are to love, Jesus says, “as I have loved you.” In his love for us, Jesus was willing to die for us. In community with him, we discover the power to love sacrificially too.
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Jesus says that when we love as he has loved, we will become a powerful attraction for people who do not know Jesus. By this, everyone will know that we are his disciples.
If we love one another, they will know we are truly children of God.