The Basics

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John 13:34-35

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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Maybe it's time we got back
to the basics of love

"Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" by Chips Moman and Bobby Emmons recorded by Waylon Jennings

Yesterday I laid a scathing indictment at the foot of the rich and powerful. I ended by saying it is time to get back to the basics. Basics of what? If your mind wasn't already going to Waylon Jennings then I'm glad you asked.

Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.

The song reminds us of what we have lost succeeding in a world where success and power are addictions to be revered instead of tools to be used. This kind of life causes feuds, surely in the life of the song's couple and just as much between families, businesses, schools, churches, cities, states, nations, peoples, and in the worst case between peoples of God.

It's easy to forget. It's easy to get swept up in the moment until all those moments get strung together and become a life style.

So it's time for a new commandment, love one another just as Jesus has loved us first. Just as Jesus has since before the beginning of the beginning. We make it harder than that, but does it have to be?

I do love the next question though, what will my neighbors think? Hopefully, by the grace and peace of God Almighty, by our love for one another, they will know that we are the disciples of the Lord God.