Remain In My Love

 

 

John 15: 9-17

Love and Joy Perfected

⁹ “As the Father loved Me, I also have ,loved you; abide in My love. ¹⁰ If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹¹ “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. ¹² This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that you love one another.

Jesus makes no bones about it nor minces no words:  He Loves us! We ought to spend as much time as we can with this tender testimony, this clear, direct and unequivocal declaration, let it sink in, and allow it to stir up return expressions of the love we have for Jesus.  The coming of Jesus, all that he did, taught and suffered are all summarized here. May we allow this love to blossom and bear fruit in and transform our lives. 

Bro. Rene.