Scripture/Bible: As the Father has loved
me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. 10 If
you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my
Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 These
things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may
be full. John 15:9-11
Reflection: What a way to love: “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in
my love.”
Not
a on the spot love or a love born out of any feelings but an eternal unselfish
love.
We
so often talk about love and give solutions and make statements that claim love
as the basis for all answers. When some people talk about religions they have
the same to say about them; “all religions talk about love”
Wish
love was as easy an answer or a solution to all of human ills. Yet it is true that love is the answer to
most of human ills but not the love that we posses or know of, definitely not human love.
Human love is a contaminated love. It is like water, not all water is the same, though it may appear the same and even pure,
and some consumed by humans may not really
be fit for human consumption and yet no one may know about it but the experts. What one thinks to be edible pure water, in fact
could be contaminated water that can lead to serious internal damage.
Similarly
Jesus the expert gives us the hope of understanding the true love which is his
love; “abide in my love” and the simple way of doing it is by keeping his
commandments. It means an effort on our part to understand his love and get
into his love.
He
is the only perfect model of love in human history and all who have perfected
this love have been men and women who have chosen to abide in his love. Apart from his love we cannot think of being imitators of that perfect love.
The
saints whom we acclaim today as role models, also had this one quality, chiefly
that of acknowledging their source and strength
as coming from that eternal model, Christ Jesus himself who manifests it
perfectly on the cross:
Prayer: Lord,
may your love be poured into my heart my means of the Holy Spirit you have
given me. (Cfr. Rm. 5:5)
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