“For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another, everyone will know that you’re my true followers.” (John 13:35, the Passion Translation)

Jesus so loved his disciples. It was more than friendship and companionship. He felt for them a spiritual love, a tender care for their needs, wisely watching over them with a focus on their growth in grace. Jesus knew that his students would carry his mission forward, and he knew that there was one essential element to its success.

Love. As followers of the Christ, the light of Truth and goodness in the world, they must practice this genuine, reflected divine Love, for one another. To preach and attempt to heal without a pure and powerful love in action, would not promote this message to the world in biblical days and it won’t bring peace and harmony today.

Love is needed. It may take some effort on our part to get past divisiveness, personal sense, ego, emotional reactions, and to let this divine Love fill us up and serve as our motive and means in all things. But Jesus did not tell his disciples to do something that wasn’t possible. His directions were revelations of what was not only right, but natural to them, and to each of us.

Let’s love one another, and by each loving thought and act show the world a little more of the saving Truth of Life that Jesus so beautifully and powerfully proved.

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