“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him because he abides with you, and he will be in you. (John 14:15-17, NRSVue)
This sounds like it starts with a conditional statement. If you love me, you will keep my commandments. But Love is an action it is something we do, and the word for if here can also mean when. When you love me, you will keep my commandments. And what are the commandments?
Well, just the chapter before this in John, Jesus is having dinner with his disciples, and he takes off his outer robe, ties a towel around his waist, and washes the disciples’ feet. When he sits back down, he says to them, “A new commandment I give to you, love one another.”
Love. It is that simple. We love Jesus by loving others.
And the Spirit will help us do that.
Love out Loud.
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