15 "If you love me, show it by doing what I've told you. 16 I will talk to the Father, and he'll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. 17 This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can't take him in because it doesn't have eyes to see him, doesn't know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you! 18 "I will not leave you orphaned. I'm coming back. 19 In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you're going to see me because I am alive and you're about to come alive. 20 At that moment you will know absolutely that I'm in my Father, and you're in me, and I'm in you. 21 "The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that's who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him."
“Love is, as much as it is anything, a struggle together that is always seeded with new possibilities and challenges...even in old age.” Eugene Kennedy
Jesus is talking about such a struggle in our text for today.
He is not talking about a comfortable system for getting into heaven.
He is talking about the struggle inherent in loving one’s neighbor as one’s self!
(This is how we love him!)
Jesus can be very demanding. To know of his amazing grace is also to learn of his demanding love. For once we are loved and know it, we have to love so others know it.
This is no extra curricular activity we are called to do. This is the heart of it all.
We have been loved with a great love! We are to love with a great love!
Prayer thought for the week: “ Lord, help me to remember that nothing is too small for love.”
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