John 14:23 NKJV
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
John 14:23 NKJV
The greatest commandment is to love the Lord our God, with all of our heart, our mind and our strength.
Here in this passage, Jesus teaches us how love can be translated into action.
Whenever love is mentioned in the Bible, it is with regards to God's kind of love which is the Agape love.
It is about preferring God and preferring His ways over and above our ways.
To love God is to keep His word (preferring God and His ways above ours).
To love God is to keep His word by aligning our life acording to all that Jesus has acomplished for us.
To love God is to keep His instructions, His teachings and to believe them and do them as He had said.
Jesus is the Word that we should live in, build on and establish our lives with.
The blessings of the Father reaches to mankind and is established in mankind through His Son Jesus. The only way for us to come into a love relationship with our heavenly Father is through living in Jesus, who is the Word.
The ultimate plan of God is that the Father, the Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit can fellowship and make their home in us.
This is so powerful, so awesome and it is such a privilege to be picked up by God, cleansed, set apart and be chosen to be His children as we live as one in Him.
We can never be alone anymore.
We can never be discarded because our Father, our Lord Jesus and God the Holy Spirit has come and made their dwelling in us.
Let us continue to abide in His word and in all that Jesus has acomplished for us.
Blessings
Ambrose Francis