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Love One Another
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Oct 1, 2026 updated
Change Your World album
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Song Meaning
Michael W. Smith frames this one as a dream — meeting "a prophet from the land of wise" who answers a crowd's search for "a solution to our world's demise" with one instruction: "love one another." The phrase reaches directly for John 13:34's command, Jesus's own new commandment given to his disciples the night before his crucifixion.
"Like in a vision from the Isle of Patmos, I was scared, it was a revelation" names John's exile and vision in Revelation 1:9 directly, borrowing its prophetic weight for the song's own closing observation: "love is getting rare." The simplicity of the instruction — repeated as the entire chorus — gets treated as deceptively hard rather than naive, a "fundamental law" the song admits is still difficult to actually live by.
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With a prophet from the land of wise
In a crowd of people from the land of troubled hearts
I said "We've come here for answers-
A solution to our world's demise"
He said the journey would be long
But here's where you start
Love one another
Love one another
Work it in and work it out
There could never be enough
Love one another
Love one another
'Cause you know without a doubt
You can change your world with love
It was a simple conclusion
But I thought that it was rather profound
Just a fundamental law that we should all live by
I took it in to tomorrow
Yea, I walked the earth but I never found
Any corner of the world
Where this did not apply
And looking out I saw no method to the madness there
Like in a vision from the Isle of Patmos, I was scared
It was a revelation
Love is getting rare