Love One Another

  • Seventeen Days in the Vine

    ByPrasad

    We didn’t plan to spend seventeen days here. But John 15 has a way of doing that. Seventeen verses — the vine and the branches, pruning, abiding, laying down your life, being called a friend, being chosen — all of it closing with the same sentence it opened with: “Love one another.” This post is a look back at all seventeen days before we move forward. Because John 15 doesn’t end when the series does. It becomes the lens for everything that follows — Genesis to Revelation.

  • This Is the Mark

    ByPrasad

    Jesus had seventeen verses to say everything He wanted to say. And when He reached the end — after the vine and the branches, the pruning, the abiding, the friendship, the choosing — He said the same thing He said at the beginning. “These things I command you, so that you will love one another.” The scholars call this an inclusio: a literary bracket that signals everything in between was building toward this. The friendship, the choosing, the access — it was all to free you to do one thing well. This is the mark He chose. Not your doctrine. Not your gifts. The love you have for each other.

  • Love Like That

    ByPrasad

    Jesus never commands us to feel something — He commands us to do something. And in John 15:12, His command is this: “Love each other as I have loved you.” Not as feels natural. Not as they deserve. As He loved — humbly, sacrificially, at His own expense. Love, in Jesus’s definition, is not primarily an emotion. It is a decision. And the remarkable thing is that when you make the decision and take the action, the emotion often follows. This is the fruit of abiding — a love that doesn’t wait for the right feeling before it moves.