Abide In My Love

“If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.” (John 14:10). Love has often been described as a feeling, an ability, an action, a powerful force, but here the Savior describes love as a place. If we keep His commandments, we shall abide in His love. Love, in the truest sense, is home. In fact, love is what makes a place a home, rather than simply an empty, lifeless house of four walls and a roof. Even if we don’t often think about it like this, we all understand that love is a place. After all, the way that we describe if we love someone is most often that we are “in love” with them. We are in this place called love, and they are in this place called love with us. When the Savior invites us to “abide in my love”, He does not want us to be mere visitors or guests. He wants us to move into His love, and call it home, and stay as long as we want, forever, even. As long as we are committed to keeping His commandments as best we can, we can abide in his love every moment of our lives. We don’t have to content ourselves with the barest random flashes of God’s love, when He manages to sneak past our defenses and penetrate our hard hearts. When we humble ourselves and offer our whole souls unto God and come all the way in and abide in His love, then it will no longer be a conscious struggle to either obey or rebel against God’s commandments. We will be in the Savior’s love, and it won’t even occur to us to do anything besides keep His commandments. I know that the Savior’s love is a place we will never want to leave, but to abide in it forever and ever. And His door is always open and He is more eager for us to move in and abide in His love than we could possibly imagine.