MAY 15, 2020
GOSPEL READING AND REFLECTION
JOHN 15:12-17
This is the commandment: love one another as I have loved you!
There is no greater love than this, to give one’s life to one’ friends; and you
are my friends, if you do what I
commanded you. I shall not call you servants any more, because servants do not
know what their master is about. Instead, I have called you friends, since I
have made you known to you everything I learned from my Father. You did not
choose me; it was I who you and sent you to go and bear fruit, fruit
that will last.And everything you ask the Father in my name, he will
give you. This is my command, that you love one another.
POINT OF REFLECTION
The gospel of today taught us how to love our fellow Christians in the same way He does.
A kind of love that God has given us since creation. His love is so great as revealed in the accounts of the old and new testaments.
The most bold revelation of God’s
love was the giving and the death of His
beloved son Jesus Christ for the
atonement of our sins.
Truly God has proven His love on us. Jesus death on the cross has
proven His greatest love to the Father.
Following Jesus in a child like character may somehow prove our love unto Jesus.
There exist a “ love
triangle.” The love of the Father to the people, the love of the people unto Jesus, and the love of Jesus to the Father. If an only if this love triangle relationship raise
up and set in the same level so required by God, the same may become a portal for
us unto heaven. This will become a way out of the torments of this life on
earth.
When He told us “to love one another as I have loved you.” God allowed us to raise up our loving
self into the level of His and equally the same level as that of Jesus. God wanted us
to have a contagious love all over the world. A love He describe as the greatest
love of all, “ to give one’s life to one’s friends.” And as God called us His
friends, we are encourage to give our life
in Him. Meaning, God wanted us to serve Him and His people in the duration
of our lifetime.
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