\u201cA new command I give you: Love one another.\u201d Aw, well that\u2019s nice isn\u2019t it!
\u201cAs I have loved you, so you must love one another.\u201d To love like Jesus loves us.
\u201cGreater love has no-one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.\u201d Hold you hard!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saying \u2018Love one another\u2019, well that\u2019s okay; to say we must love like Jesus loves us, yeah, well that gives us a yard stick, a standard; but \u2018that he lay down his life\u2019 that\u2019s a bit too far! Jesus is talking to His disciples, this rag-tag bunch of humanity; the ever impetuous Peter; James and John the sons of thunder; the slightly other-worldly John; Mary Magdalene, from whom Jesus had driven out the evil spirits. And He looks round this motley collection of people and says, \u2018Love one another\u2019. \u2018Surely He can\u2019t mean Peter \u2013 he\u2019s such a blockhead at times, always acting or speaking before thinking\u2019 Love one another. \u2018What, love James and John \u2013 but they\u2019re always arguing, the slightest thing and they\u2019re off on one.\u2019 Love one another. Jesus knew the foibles, the peculiarities, the oddities about each of His disciples. He knew that where two or three are gathered there\u2019s bound to be a difference of opinion. \u2018Love one another.\u2019
\u2018As I have loved you, so you must love one another.\u2019 Jesus loved His disciples unconditionally. His command to them was to love one another unconditionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it is His command to us, \u2018Love one another.\u2019 Unconditionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rev Phil<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA new command I give you: Love one another.\u201d Aw, well that\u2019s nice isn\u2019t it!\u201cAs I have loved you, so you must love one another.\u201d To love like Jesus loves us.\u201cGreater love has no-one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.\u201d Hold you hard! Saying \u2018Love one another\u2019, well that\u2019s okay; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpetersbromyard.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpetersbromyard.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpetersbromyard.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpetersbromyard.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpetersbromyard.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpetersbromyard.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/stpetersbromyard.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpetersbromyard.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpetersbromyard.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpetersbromyard.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}