Sunday Meditation: Do You Love Jesus?

This week, Jesus continues His Farewell Discourse with a promise.

 

Jesus said to his disciples:

"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

And I will ask the Father,

and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always,

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept,

because it neither sees nor knows him.

But you know him, because he remains with you,

and will be in you.

I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

In a little while the world will no longer see me,

but you will see me, because I live and you will live.

On that day you will realize that I am in my Father

and you are in me and I in you.

Whoever has my commandments and observes them

is the one who loves me.

And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father,

and I will love him and reveal myself to him."             

Jn 14:15-21

But you can only receive the Advocate if you follow His commandments, and you will follow His commandments if you love Him.  Jeff Cavins gives a wonderful exegesis of this passage by first putting you—the worshipper—on the spot.

 

So do you love Jesus?

Here is the verse to meditate on:  “On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you..”  How can that be?