When God Says …
“Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” (John 14:23 KJV).
In answer to Judas' question: “....“Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?””(John 14:22b MSG), the Lord Jesus gave him a highlight of the essential link of loving Him and keeping His Words. Obeying His commands is the very important work we need to do. And, in the Lord's response to the religious crowd who asked Him "what work God requires?" “Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”” (John 6:29 NIV). To believe is what's expected of us! Definitely, not by our work of trying hard in self-effort! It is by grace! (Romans 11:6).
The moment we believe and consent ourselves to be loved by Him, through His grace we enter into the realm of His love. Not our love. No one can love God unless we first recognize that He loved us. Apostle John, the only disciple that profess of the Lord's love for him (John 13:23; 19:26; 20:2; 21:7&20), reminds us of this: “In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.” (1 John 4:10-13 ESV).
And I say, AMEN!
Daily reflections by:
F. A. Frias
PFC Ministries
When God says... I say, AMEN! is a provocative reflection of the Lord's holy Word. It intends to challenge every seeker of truth to dig deep into the core of the Word of Life to point every being to Christ Jesus - the author and finisher of our faith, and to draw revelations for change, for nourishment and for strength of every soul.
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