How
can I not love my neighbour, if God loves me so much!! Yesterday morning on the
way to the hospital my lack of patience was added to my lack of love for my
brother! But even in that pain that I can find God’s love too!
God is loveand anyone who lives in love lives in God,and God lives in him.
God
lives in me and in my neighbour! I am increasingly
aware of the enormity of God’s love for me, just by contemplating Jesus on the
Cross! He not only gave his life for me, he became like me, a created being
subject to time and space, who ultimately felt totally abandoned by his father.
He loved giving all of himself to the extent of being nothing, nothingness out
of love! For us it is perhaps difficult to get our heads round that, but it is
an amazing measure of God’s love for us, if one considers the difference between
God and us, his creation!
God has given us eternal lifeand this life is in his Son;anyone who has the Son has life,anyone who does not have the Son does not have life.
The
more I am united with Jesus by loving my neighbour in the way he does, I have
his life! I am living in him and he in me, or better: I am living him and he is
living me!
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