I have often wondered how Jesus could command love. One cannot control emotions, neither can they be directed. Yet throughout the New Testament we are commanded to love others, most notably John 13:34 “A new commandI give you: Love one another.As I have loved you, so you must love one another”. It is verses like this one that gives me a hard time. I have found there are some people I just don’t get along with, people whose personality’s clash with my own. Yet I am commanded not only to love them but to show them the same type of …


