Authority

Oh, I completely forgot to add this thought I had while working on this morning's post, which struck me as especially apropos for today. Jesus showed us the true exercise of His authority: I give you a new commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. He said this after washing their feet, so that in the long view they would have the true context of His Passion and thereby know how to wield authority. Elsewhere He contrasts clearly: those who are in authority lord it over them, but you are not to be like that. Whoever would be greatest must be the last of all and the servant of all.