My Sunday Scripture 2009.5.17.
As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command you: love one another.
Saint John 15:9-17.
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My Reading Notes:
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This may be the most important teaching we got from Jesus.
It includes every thing we need to know, at least, for the present.
Love is so important for human being. That is the ultimate difference of a human and an animal. Love is the only remedy for human, if we wish to live in the planet.
And Jesus has set the standard for love. To lay down one's life, is the highest standard. This is the most beautiful thing could have happened on earth: to use up your whole, to serve your friends, to dedicate. And that is the meaning of life.
If we could see this point through the theory of evolution, there are two stages:
one, the animal stage. the next, human stage.
In the animal stage, the animals strike for a better living through killing.
Now we are in the next stage. We strike for a better living through love.
We must love each other. This is the "reason" that, I love you.
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