Remain in His love

Gospel JN 15:9-17

Jesus said to his disciples:
“As the Father loves me, so I also love you.
Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love,
just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
and remain in his love.

“I have told you this so that my joy might be in you
and your joy might be complete.
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
No one has greater love than this,
to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
I no longer call you slaves,
because a slave does not know what his master is doing.
I have called you friends,
because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you
and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain,
so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
This I command you: love one another.”

In today's reading we get the message from Jesus that it's all about love!  He tell us to "remain in his love" and to "love one another."  They are two sides of the same coin.  My ability to love another is a natural outgrowth of remaining in God's love.  When I forget how much God loves me, loving someone else pretty much goes out the door.  Lord Jesus, help me to remain in your love and remember from moment to moment how much you love me.