
“I’m giving you a new commandment: Love each other in the same way that I have loved you.” (John 13: 34, God’s Word Translation)
We must and can obey this new commandment. We can relish emulating Jesus and the way in which he loved his disciples, and all mankind.
Loving each other as Jesus did means recognizing the goodness in another, seeing their true being, honoring them as fellow children of God. It means believing in others, trusting their ability to learn and progress, to be representatives themselves of the Christ-Truth, just as we can also know ourselves to be.
Jesus loved unconditionally, but that didn’t mean he ignored the errors that one might be practicing or holding in one’s heart unnecessarily. His love guided his followers, his friends, away from what was wrong and harmful, admonishing them as needed, but never giving them a feeling that they were not still dearly loved, worthy.
Can we do this? Jesus knew we could, or he wouldn’t have given this as a commandment, a very strong rule by which we should live. Jesus was telling us God’s demand, not his personal one. It was and is a universal law that comes with healing power today and always.
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