Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

Today, our gospel reading from John is a continuation of the words we heard Jesus speaking last Sunday.  This whole section of John’s gospel is known as Jesus’ Farewell Discourse because he is preparing the disciples for his death.  He knows he is going to die and he will be leaving them.  In John’s gospel, these words are some of the last words Jesus speaks during his earthly life, and his last words are all about love.  Jesus speaks of his love for the disciples and, by extension, his love for us.  Jesus says, “As the Father has loved me, so I love you, and so you should love one another.” In our culture, the word “love” is highly ambiguous.  In Greek, there are many different words for different types of love that become translated into English simply as the word love.  In today’s passage, the word that has been translated as love comes from the Greek word agape.  This kind of love describes the excellence of character that God has by nature.  It is all about relationship and it is the kind of love we find