The Love Command in Action
Easter 6A | John 14:15-21
We get philosophical Jesus this morning, don’t we? Here he is, describing the Advocate and the Trinitarian nature of God. It is all very heady, in that way. And for a lot of people, this is incredibly instructive because they want to dig into the metaphysics to answer the existential nature of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. This answers questions definitively so we can be assured of our governing orthodoxy.
It all seems so certain.
And yet, this is the continuation of the story we dug into last week, when Jesus spoke of The Way and Thomas asked how we’re supposed to know and Philip asked for proof. They were looking for certainty and Jesus was telling them how they would know — that the certainty they want is in something else. And that exchange is moments after Jesus has washed their feet, spoken of how one of them is about to betray them, and that their new commandment, the thing that is most important above all things, is this: “Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.”
Certainty and the obsession with getting this thing perfect isn’t the path many make it out to be. It’s a distraction.
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