Where Was Jesus Today?

This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you.  John 15:12-14

Resurrection Day is celebrated four weeks from next Sunday, so our Lord Jesus probably wasn't in Jerusalem yet in that year of His death and resurrection. As about half of John's gospel concerns those events just before, during, and just after the Passover, this verse for today does not answer the question.  However, the passage does give to us what Jesus our Lord would have us to do while we await His return: love one another. Oh, and lay down our lives one for another. Jesus is of course our best example of laying down His life for His beloved ones, but we probably won't be called to do that this day. So, how can one go about laying down a life for the love of others? Social media provides one arena for this. In place of what we may want to do in this life, that is bullying, criticizing, judging, condemning, mocking, and even demonizing one another, we might strive to understand and love one another. Yes, whoever your 'they' is, they likely have some views that are strange to you, but Jesus made it your job and mine to love them too. 

Have that loving day online and in Christ today!

Bucky