As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.
Read the comparison carefully: as the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Jesus isn't describing an ordinary, human-sized affection. He's placing his love for the people listening to him on the same level as the love inside the relationship he calls the center of everything. That's a strange thing to claim about people who, in the very next chapter, mostly abandon him.
And the instruction that follows isn't work harder to deserve it. It's abide — stay there, rest in it, don't wander off looking for something better. Love this large is treated as a place to live inside of, not a prize to keep earning.
If your experience of love has mostly been conditional — earned, then withdrawn when you slipped — this verse is describing something built on entirely different terms. Whether you're ready to trust that yet is a separate question from whether it's worth understanding.
If love without the usual conditions sounds almost unbelievable, that disbelief is worth bringing along as you look closer at who's making the claim.
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.