Forget the update, I needed the date

Forget the update, I needed the date.

Someone sent me a note the other day giving me an update! I kind of sat back down in my seat, not that I was rising to go run a marathon or anything, and read it again. Seems to me, no one sent me the “date” so the “update” was kind of, well a big surprise.

The definition of “update” is the act of bringing someone up to date, or update the version of something. I get it all the time with the computers. “Your update is ready to download” which is confusing if you don’t understand computerese.

Jesus did an update: brought an old commandment with a new version. It’s in John 13. “A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one anther as I have loved you, that you also love one another. “

So Jesus updates the Ten Commandments. They leaders loved their checks and balances. The crossing stuff off the to do list on the fridge kind of mentality: did that Lord, didn’t do that.

But Jesus does an update. Love like he loved, and then he repeats himself telling us to also, which means in addition to, love one another. Is that kind of remind you of telling someone to do something and by the quizzical look on their face you get the idea, they didn’t understand the update!

I was totally confused with the update because I didn’t get the original. Perhaps why we don’t get Jesus update to love one another is because we haven’t read enough of the original, the Bible, so that an update is possible. If you don’t download a computer program, you will never need to update it! If we don’t know God’ word, and understand God loving us through the history of the Old Testament, we won’t really need an update!

Updates also, maybe it’s because my computers are old or I am, take your pick, takes times. The circle spins in the middle of the computer screen and we impatiently wait for it to download so we can get on with life. Learning to love like Jesus loved, is a lot more megabytes than some of us have room in our hearts for. Delete a bunch of old files, clean up your computer hard drive, called the heart, and get ready for an update!