There is a song we sing in Church called “Amazing Love;” it’s a song describing the perfect love of God. My favorite line in the song is, “Amazing love how can it be, that you my King would die for me.” Jesus is the only King in history to die for His subjects. I guarantee you will never hear of an earthly king accept death on behalf of the people he rules over. Especially accepting death in place of those who want him dead.

Jesus displayed the perfect example of godly love.

The following story is an old story dating back to 1995, but one I just stumbled across recently. It is a story that will touch your heart and bring a tear of joy to your eyes. It is a story that I believe helps confirm that there is more to the power of love than just the human interpretation of it.

It’s a story that displays the difference between a godly love of selflessness; verse a human love of selfishness.

On October 17, 1995, Heidi Jackson had born twin girls who were twelve weeks premature. At birth Kyrie was born 2 pounds, 3 ounces. Kyrie quickly began to thrive as she gained weight and slept most of the time away comfortably as her premature body developed.

Brielle, on the other hand, did not gain weight as significantly as Kyrie and also developed breathing and heart problems, as well as a low blood oxygen level that doctors could not stabilize. Brielle also had difficulty sleeping which was much needed at this stage of development.

On November 12, Brielle began gasping for breath as her arms and legs began to turn a bluish green color. She was immediately designated as “critical condition.” Her attending nurse Gayle Kasparian, did everything in her power to stabilize little Brielle with little success. Brielle’s oxygen continued to go down as her heart rate soared to dangerous levels for such a tiny infant.

Although hospital regulations required that babies were to be in separate incubators to reduce any risk of acquiring or transferring infection, nurse Kasparian recalled a procedure she heard about, that is common in European countries, but little known in the U.S. That procedure was to double-bedding multiple-birth babies, especially those who are born premature, as a way of recreating there time together in the womb. The belief is that there are physiological benefits to the babies being together, and in turn was believed to help in nurturing their health.

With her Nurse manager unavailable due to being in a meeting, nurse Kasperian took the responsibility into her own hands and requested of the distraught parents to allow her to place the babies in the same incubator, as she explained to them about this little known procedure and also telling them, she didn’t know what else to do.

The parents agreed, and nurse Kasparian placed Brielle into Kyrie’s incubator. As the parents and Kasparian watched, Brielle almost immediately snuggled up to healthy Kyrie and she began to stabilize. Her blood oxygen levels rose to the highest levels since being born and she dozed off into a peaceful sleep.

As Brielle dozed, an amazing thing happened; Kyrie gently put her arm around the smaller sibling as to hug her, and kept it there.

Coincidently, the meeting that nurse Kasparian’s head nurse was attending was on the topic of double-bedding. When head nurse, Susan Fitzpatrick returned from the meeting and was doing rounds, nurse Kasparian told her of the progress of little Brielle, but also informed her of her decision to double-bedding them, that was against hospital regulations, but seemed to be the prescription to promote this sudden turnaround.

Not knowing what nurse Fitzpatrick’s response would be, she was surprised to find out that the topic of the meeting was about possibly changing the double-bedding regulation. Today there are hospitals throughout the country who now double-bed multiple-birth babies.

At The Medical Center of Central Massachusetts in Worcester, where this true story took place, this story of Kyrie and Brielle Jackson has become legend. In a book publish in April of 2001, called, “Twin Tales: The Magic and Mystery of Multiple Births,” by Donna M. Jackson; the twins are healthy and strong, and living a normal life.

I mentioned at the beginning of this article that I believed this story confirms that there is more to love than just the human interpretation of it. In Ephesians 3:17-19, the apostle Paul says of this love, “17) And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18) may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19) and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

In verse 18, the apostle tells us that this love of Christ, that he is speaking of, “surpasses all knowledge;” and he prays that we are established in this particular love; not the love of man, but the love of God. The difference between these two kinds of love are light years apart.

The love of man is a selfish love; the, “what can it do for me” attitude. When you look at the institution of marriage in our society and the percentage of those marriages going the distance being at only about 50%, you would have to conclude that something is wrong with man’s interpretation of love, because it certainly is not in comparison to the godly love we read about in the Bible.

When two people come together in marriage there is a commitment by both husband and wife to love one another “until death do us part.” Maybe that part of the wedding ceremony should be re-worded to, “until I get bored of you” or “until that love fades enough where I need someone new to ignite my passion.”

No! This is not true love at all. True love is expressed in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” This love that John speaks of here is unconditional godly love; a true love that has no boundaries. A love that Jesus Himself spoke of when He said, “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” A love that Paul said was beyond our knowledge.

Consider your best friend, would he lay his life down willingly for you, or vice versa, would you lay your life down willingly for him? A godly love directs its focus out, whereas mans love directs its focus within. Godly love prompts you to focus on the needs of others, regardless of your own personal needs. One who is displaying a godly love will find that by default their personal needs will be met supernaturally.

That’s the way God’s law is designed. When you display godly love in your life by focusing out to the needs of others, you will be blessed.

Without the Holy Spirit in us there is no way for you or I to comprehend this godly kind of love. When you live according to the worlds way of living, the “just do it!” society, we are brainwashed into believing that love is all about filling that love void within our own being with that of another person that we are attracted to. And when we recite the marriage vow of “until death do us part,” some fifty percent of the time we really don’t mean that.

When we fail to live up to our commitment, it is then we claim ignorance and disregard the true meaning of “until death do us part?” We will justify it through this selfish love of mans interpretation. If we were truly living by God’s law of love, we would live up to our commitment by taking full responsibility of our actions even in a moment of selfish behavior.

Regardless of how selfish one becomes in living according to this worlds way of a “just do it!” attitude, the seed of God’s love is implanted within each one of us from the day we were formed in our mothers womb. We read in Genesis 1:26, that God created us in His own image and likeness. Many believe that this is referring to our physical appearance; even many preachers teach on this.

But, that is not what God is referring to here, He is referring to our spiritual being and the seeds of His own nature that are planted deep within us. The love we feel toward family and friends is an extension of this godly love. The problem lies in the corruption of this godly love into a selfish worldly love, because of sin, which has distorted this law of God’s love.

With Brielle and Kyrie Jackson, this godly love within them has not yet had the opportunity to have been corrupted by the worlds way of thinking. By default God’s love of focusing out to another is evident here by this new born babies automatic concern and love for her sick sibling.

Why didn’t Brielle put her arm around Kyrie? Because it was Brielle who needed the power of God’s perfect love to strengthen her and heal her; not Kyrie. Even though Kyrie was dealing with her own development issues due to being premature herself, Brielle needed Kyrie more than Kyrie needed Brielle. Amazingly, Kyrie, through this seed of godly love planted within her, she automatically responded to Brielle’s need.

Each one of us can learn valuable lessons from three and a half week old Kyrie Jackson, who in her brief life has displayed an awesome example of the true nature of God’s undeniable love that surpasses all our understanding, and that we each need in our lives.

Take a good look into your own life. Do you display this kind of godly love on a daily basis, or is it a love that is just focused on supplying your own needs, even when it may appear that we are focusing it out; is it really? Or is it all about you!

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