Our Lord has recommended His love to us as the pattern and the example of our love to one another. As, therefore, He is continually making intercession for us all, so we ought to intercede and pray for one another.
“A new commandment,” said Jesus, “I give to you, that you love one another, as I have loved you. By this shall all people know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:34,35)
The newness of this precept did not consist in that people were commanded to love one another, for this was an old precept, both of the law of Moses and of nature. But it was new in this respect, that it was to initiate a new and, till then, unheard-of example of love; it was to love one another as Christ had loved us. And if others are to know that we are disciples of Christ, by thus loving one another according to His new example of love, then it is certain that if we are void of this love we make it as plainly known to others that we are not His disciples.
-- Adapted from William Law (1686-1761) in “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life”
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