A New Command

Read John 13:34-35

Recently I read an article by one of my favorite authors, Francis Chan. His article was all about how we treat one another. He asked the question - knowledge or love? And quoted 1 Corinthians 13:2 which says we can have the gift of prophecy, understand mysteries, have all sorts of knowledge and have faith that can move mountains but if we do not have love we are nothing. Chan summarizes, "you can be brilliant and worthless."

He goes on and raises the issue of how Christians treat one another. This made me think of Jesus' words in John 13. This world will know we are His disciples (followers) if we love one another. What happens in the family of God is often unfortunate. We take Jesus' love to the world and there's nothing unfortunate about that - in fact, God is pleased when we go to the world with His love. But what is unfortunate is when we fail to realize Jesus' command - Love one another - is given to His disciples; Jesus is saying believers love believers then this world will know you truly are my disciples.

Let's be different, let's love each other (men and women of Christ) so well that this world can't help but take notice that we are His!