Jn 15:9-17
Remain In My Love
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other."
One of the most beloved passages in St. John, in Scripture itself, it sums up beautifully and succinctly the message Jesus came to give us. We never seem to exhaust its meaning and implications even as we ponder it time and time again. Sometimes love is not "warm and fuzzy", sometimes it is "tough love", but it always puts the good of the other first. We certainly hear and see this in the life of Jesus, and his outstretched arms on the cross give us a striking visual of the extent of his love for us and what our love for others can and should be. Let us takes some extra time with these verses throughout the day and allow them to become the guidelines for our relationships with all who come into our life today and in the days ahead.
Bro. Rene
Dear Jesus, as you have loved me, so may I love others. Amen.
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