Drawing Attention

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another"- John 13:34-35 (NIV).

Jesus was talking about loving fellow believers. In doing so, the watching world judges us to be Jesus' disciples. Don't we want to be identified as such? I cannot think of any better compliment, even if meant as an insult, than to be called a disciple of Jesus Christ. Scripture says God is love (1 John 4:8). When love flows from one Christian to another, the love is really Spirit, it's God, moving through one believer to another. We become a conduit, a pathway used by God, streaming His essence and power, filling each other up...with love; with God's presence. If only we could visibly see it; if it were bright red; or if it had a discernible warmth to it  It would look like the stage of a music concert with brilliant technicolor and pyrotechnics drawing everyone's attention. Everyone can easily identify there are musicians on that kind of stage. Today's Scripture tells us that everyone can easily identify Christ's disciples, too, by the way we love one another. What better way to draw everyone's attention to Jesus. And all we have to do is obey Jesus' command.