He who comes from heaven speaks of the things he has seen and heard; he bears
witness to these things, but no one accepts his testimony. Whoever does receive his
testimony acknowledges the truthfulness of God. The one sent by God speaks God’s
words, and gives the Spirit unstintingly. The Father loves the Son and has entrusted
everything into his hands. Whoever believes in the Son lives with eternal life; but he
who will not believe in the Son will never know life, and always faces the justice of God.”

Reflect

“God as the Loving Father.” To believe or not to believe – that is the question. John’s
Gospel always highlights the challenge to believe in Jesus as the one sent by God.
Moreover, in the Gospel of John, Jesus is the Revealer. He reveals who the Father is.
He speaks only of what he heard from the Father. Furthermore, believing in Jesus is
tantamount to having eternal life. We may ask: Is there really life amidst the many
problems we are now facing? Yes, there is. There is life for those who believe in
Jesus. Thus, the grace of Easter enables us to focus our attention on Jesus. It is
through Jesus that we can grow in our knowledge of God. Jesus revealed God as
a loving Father. We often ignore this basic truth revealed by Jesus. If we would
only focus our attention on Jesus who keeps on telling us that God is our loving
Father, our lives will definitely be never the same again. Believing in Jesus, we
would begin seeing each other as brothers and sisters under the one Fatherhood of
an all-loving God. Pope Francis, in his Encyclical Fratelli Tutti challenges us to
participate in the promotion of social love in our world today.

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