John 14:15
"If you love Me, keep My commandments"
Our Lord never insists upon obedience; He tells us every emphatically what we ought to do, but He never takes means to make us do it. We have to obey Him out of oneness of spirit. That is why whenever Our Lord talked about discipleship, He prefaced it with an -- IF--you do not need to unless you like. "If any man will be My disciple, let him deny himself," let him give up his right to himself to me. Our Lord is talking of eternal positions, but of being of value to Himself in this order of things; that is why He sounds so stern (Luke 14:26). Never interpret these words apart from the One Who uttered them.
The Lord does not give me rules, He makes His standard very clear, and if my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says without any hesitation. If I hesitate, it is because I love someone else in competition with him, IE (my wife, myself).. Jesus Christ will not help me to obey Him, I must obey Him; and when I do obey Him, I fulfill my spiritual destiny. My personal life may be crowed with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience many were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me in other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail
The Cross Life Ministry
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