“If a man loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and come unto him, and we will come unto Him, and make our abode with Him.”
Do we genuinely love the Lord? John 14:23 gives us some keen insight into loving the Lord. Jesus said, “If a man (anyone) loves me…” “If” presupposes that not everyone loves the Lord. Love reaches its supreme good when it is given to the Lord Jesus Christ. It is important that we love our parents, our spouses, our brothers and sisters and people in our church. In fact, we are told to love everyone. I do not think that we will love people as we should until we really love the Lord and are thankful for all of His blessings. Jerome O. Williams wrote that love for the Lord is “love’s highest height.” We need to frequently check our love quotient. Do we love the Lord as we should? Jesus pointed out that love for the lord is obedient: “If a man love me, he will keep my words.” Those who love the Lord supremely will certainly seek to know and to do His will on a daily basis. They will certainly seek to keep the commandments of Jesus, the greatest of which is love. They will seek to worship Him. Those who love the Lord will seek to win others to Him. They will want to minister to their fellow human beings in times of great need in their lives. All of these, and more, are signs of obedient love. We should remind ourselves that Jesus was obedient in His love for us when He died on the cross to save us from sin. The most wonderful fact is that the Lord returns our love: “My Father will love him…” This does not mean that the Father does not love us already. John 3:16 has already told us that He loves the world so much that ”He gave His only begotten Son.” Among other things, I think that this means that we will realize the love the Father has for us when we love the Son. Sadly, there are millions of people who do not know that the Father loves them. If we love Jesus and are obedient in that love, surely we will know that He loves us supremely. The fact is that, “We love (God) because He first loved us.” (1 John 4:19) How can we not respond to Him in love? You can really express your love for Him if you will turn your life over to Him by putting your faith in Him. Jesus said that the first commandment is to “love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.” That pretty well covers it doesn’t it? Bro. Joe
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