The command to love
This week's verses are John 15:12-17 : My commandment is this—to love one another just as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this—that one lays down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. This I command you—to love one another. Jesus is telling us here to love one another, but he's also telling us a bit about love itself. And it says a bit about the relationship we find ourselves in with him. God is far greater than we are. He can command us to do whatever he likes and we have no recourse but to obey or be punished. The world is his, and everything in it, including us,...