John 14,21-26 – Monday of the V Week of Easter
«If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him.”
The secret of Christian life is contained in these words from today’s Gospel. Being Christian means, first of all, letting yourself be loved and learning to love Jesus. But Jesus immediately clarifies what it means to love. It is not just a feeling, an emotion, something you feel “in the pit of your stomach”. Love, in the Gospel, is concrete: it means observe his word, live according to what he teaches.
Loving Jesus means taking the Gospel seriously. It means letting yourself be guided by that word in your daily choices, in your relationships, in your way of facing life. And to those who live like this an immense promise is made: not only is he loved by God, but he becomes God’s home. “We will come to him and make our home with him.” It is a reality that we often risk not fully grasping. God is not just someone who looks down on us or accompanies us from afar. It’s someone who he wants to live inside us, permanently.
This changes everything, because if God dwells in us, then our life is never empty. She is never left to herself. AND inhabited by a presence that supports, illuminates, motivates. And then a question arises spontaneously: if a person is full of God, full of his love, isn’t this already a foretaste of heaven? Today’s Gospel invites us precisely to do this: not to be satisfied with a superficial Christianity, but enter into a relationship so real that it becomes God’s house.
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