John 14:21,22 - He who loves me will be loved by my Father

14:21

So how do we know if we love Jesus, or if someone else loves Him.? It is by our obeying His commandments. Obedience is a crucial part of the gospel. It is not that we earn salvation by our obedience, but our obedience is the fruit of the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. And it means that we are loved by the Father and also by the Son. And the Son will “manifest His love to us”. While Jesus was with them they obviously experienced Him, but we can still experience the presence of Christ in our lives. We often give warnings about living by experiences, and rightly so, but we also need to recognise that experience is part of the normal Christian life. God is not just a theological truth, but also a lived truth.

14:22

Judas here is Judas the son of James (Lk 6:16), and he asks how it will be that He manifests Himself to the disciples, but not to the world. There is a clear distinction between those who know Jesus and those who do not. I guess we have all wondered why some people cannot see the goodness of God, the glory of Christ, and we wonder why this is so. Why can they not see what we can see?