Evening: Psalms 4, 7; John 14:8-17
According to Jesus, to love him is to love God. He says, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments,” i.e. we will love God and our neighbour. But that does not mean God loves us in return for keeping the commandments. That gets things backwards. Love is what enables us to love. Love is not conditional, not withheld as a punishment. Love is purposeful and creative. God’s love, revealed in Jesus, is the origin of our love ... If our love for one another is conditional, it does not yet spring from the Source of Love.
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