Who do you love?

By tomcaluori | May 9, 2021

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him the greatest human achievement. The measure of love is to love without measure.”

St. Augustine of Hippo

“Love one another as I have loved you.” John 15.12

In this Sunday’s gospel, Jesus speaks to his disciples about unconditional love. This is part of his farewell speech.

This is the kind of love Jesus is about to show in his arrest, torture and crucifixion.

Love is what the gospels are all about. God is love. Jesus is God’s Son. All that Jesus says and does reflects the Father’s love.

Unbelievably, Jesus calls his followers friends. Unlike servants they know all they need to know and are “commissioned to go out and to bear fruit,” and then amazingly-

“Anything you ask in my name.” Jesus says, “the Father will you.”

Friends speak to each other. This is what prayer is and a good start is to read and understand what Jesus said and did and reflect upon what this means for how to live.

How awesome that Jesus, Son of God has commissioned us to go out and bear fruit. To change people’s lives by bringing them more closely to Him. To transform the world.

I feel gratitude that Jesus gave his life for me so that I could have life in the fullest way possible in the here and now and be immersed in his love for all eternity.

I feel privileged that the God who made me is calling me to change the world so as to reflect his love.

to honour human life from conception to death
to put an end to war and nuclear weapons
to free the world from the chains of ideology
to share the worlds’ resources including covid vaccines at this time
to value and esteem the gift of sexuality in the context of a covenant relationship of love

“Love one another as I have loved you.”

Listen to “Such Love/ Lord your tenderness Graham Kendrick/Nicky Rogers on Youtube

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