What we read in John 16 takes place as Jesus ate the Seder on the night before he died. However, the theology behind what Jesus says evolved for about forty years before John wrote this gospel. So, what we hear Jesus saying in this passage is not just spoken to the Apostles reclining at table with Jesus, it is spoken to the Church at the end of the first century and the beginning of the twenty first century.
The message we hear is all about the relationship we call the Trinity and how God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit share a loving relationship with us, the Church. As St. Paul says, "In Him we live and move and have our being." God dwells in us, and we dwell in God. The sacred bond that exists between us unites us more powerfully than any force in heaven or on earth. This is why we are called disciples. Our lives are so transformed by God's love that our lives become living signs of his presence in the world.
That's a loving relationship! Our lives belong to God who lives and moves and has his being in us. May our lives reflect that Divine Presence in the ways are called to love one another, and in all the ways we live and move and have our being in Christ who saves us.
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