Today's Daily Lesson comes from John chapter 13 verse 34:
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another."
Today is the Feast of St John, the Beloved Disciple.
John gets his name because in the Gospel which he wrote he always refers to himself as "the whom Jesus loved".
How extraordinary! Imagine what it would be to so deeply know we are loved that that "loved one" actually becomes our name -- our sole and soul identity.
"We love because God first loved us," John said. This means we cannot love without first being loved. Grammatically speaking (this should please my English-teacher wife), we cannot be the subject of love without first being its direct object. In other words, we cannot give love without first receiving it. Just as the light of the moon shining into the earth is in actuality light reflected from the sun, so our love for others is always a reflection of God's love for us.
Want to love? First be loved. Love yourself. Love yourself with the love of God. For the love of self begins with the love of God and ends in the love of neighbor.
#2BLoved
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