Evening: Psalms 111, 114; John 14:15-31
When Jesus says, “If you love me you will keep my commandments”, you can understand it in one of two ways. The common way actually makes Jesus sound whiny, like ... Show me you love me by doing as I say. But I can’t imagine Jesus ever being peevish or sulky. So, I have to make sense of it differently, something like this ... If you love me and everything I stand for, you will then be able to live a life of Love without even trying; it will just come naturally. That sounds to me much more like Jesus.
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