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E V E R Y D A Y L I G H T
Daily readings to help you see Jesus' light in your life
by Selwyn Hughes
Our Code Is a Character
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you
..." (v. 34)
-- For reading & meditation: J ohn 13:1-38
What other teacher has taken the Ten Commandments and had the right
to add another commandment to them? But this is precisely what Jesus
did, as we see from our text today. "A new command I give you," He
said. "Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one
another." The Old Testament and other religious writings enjoined
loving one another. What was new was this: "As I have loved you." Our
Lord's conduct - "as I have loved you" - produced a new code for the
human race. Paul, writing to the Philippians, catches the spirit of
it when he says: "Treat one another with the same spirit as you
experience in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5, Moffatt). Here morality
reaches its high-water mark. From the moment Jesus uttered the words
that are occupying our attention, there came into human life
something more than a code - there came a Character. Now, therefore,
our code is a Character - the Character of Jesus. When someone asks
me if I believe in the Ten Commandments I say: "Yes, and very much
more besides. I believe in Jesus." The Ten Commandments are an
injunction - and a God-given one. But Jesus is an injunction plus an
inspiration. To follow an injunction is to obey an imposed morality,
but to follow a Person and do the things He does is an inspired
morality. One is legalism, the other love. One binds you, the other
frees you. One makes you feel trammelled, the other relaxed and
spontaneous. Our code is not a commandment but a Character. One
greater than the commandments is here.
PRAYER:
O Christ, Your law lays upon me an injunction, but Your life entering
into my life inspires me to live up to that injunction. It is this
that makes Your yoke so easy. I am deeply, deeply grateful. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
John 15:1-17; James 2:8; Matt. 7:12
1. What was the basis of Christ's love?
2. What is the basis of our being able to fulfill the Royal Law?
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