John 5:19 (NIVUK)
19 Jesus gave them this answer: ‘Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
One of my favourite bands from the 80’s/90’s was Karl Wallinger’s World Party (Robbie Williams famously covered his song ‘She’s The One’). In one of his tracks, aptly titled ‘What is Love All About?‘ he explores the meaning of love, opening with the following verse:
I only breathe when your mouth opens
I only dream when you’re asleep
When I’m in this room, I don’t see nothin’
‘Cept whatever’s runnin’ through your mind
It strikes me, that although he’s writing about love between a couple, these lyrics capture something of what it means to love God – isn’t this what Jesus is trying to express in today’s passage? Perhaps it also captures something of what it means to love and follow Jesus?
Jesus, I long to be more like you…
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