This verse sounds like the other shoe dropping. Keep my commandments and you will remain in my love. But Jesus is not adding a condition to the love. He is describing the posture that keeps you in it.

The love is not the reward for obedience. The love is the environment. And obedience is how you stay there. Jesus models it with his own life: just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

For anyone who has been performing for God instead of living with God, this episode reframes the whole relationship.

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