Love? Jesus says so!

Yesterday I was talking to my dad about what I call a Political Gospel. He pointed that I have become just a little bit too quick to point faults in the church and I forget what Jesus really says.

"But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" And He said to him, "You shall love the Lord our God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. on these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."
Matthew 22:34-40

"One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, "What commandment is the foremost of all?" Jesus answered, "The foremost is, Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is n other commandment greater than these."
Mark 12:28-31

Loving each other the way that Jesus loved us is our calling! This I must say may be the hardest of all our callings. After we begin to know Jesus its not very hard to love him with a little bit of faith but to love everyone in the world the way Jesus loved us is way harder and much more complex. However, Jesus came here not to just die for our sins and save us but also to give us a model of how to live Godly lives. He teaches us how to be Christ-like. I hear all the time that of course Jesus' life is our model but there is no way we can ever reach that model. I have to say that not only can we reach it but that is what we are to strive for. See it makes no sense that Jesus would come and teach us something that is impossible for us to reach. I believe that we can and should strive to be as the model set forth by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!