All joking aside, was He being literal when He said for us to treat other people the way we would like to be treated (Matt 7:12)? What if we decided Jesus wasn’t kidding around when He said for us love our Creator with every breath of our entire being and to love our neighbors in the same way we love ourselves (Matt 22:37-39)? How crazy would it be if we took the word ‘command’ and treated it like, oh say, a commandment? I’m thinking of how He raised the bar of His expectations when shared with His followers, “Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I have loved you, love one another” (John 13:34). Do you think He really meant for us to wash the feet of someone EVEN if we knew they were about to betray us ( John 13:1-17)?

What if we acted like this was the big deal? What if those of us who say we are Jesus followers actually followed in those foot steps? What if we just tried it for one day?

Really, what would that one day look like? Just curious.