John 3 & 421 “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 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. 24 “He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Fathers who sent Me.” (John 14:21–24).
How does Jesus know that we love Him? If we keep His words. How do we know that we love Jesus? By keeping His words. Make an area in your journal to write down all the words in John that Jesus actually says. Normally those words are written in red ink. As you find them, apply yourself to doing them. Keeping His words indicates that you treasure them, you hold them, press them into your heart, and that you do them. You do them because you value them above the words you hear from the world, and you remember them, not forgetting them. The Bible warns us that we can look into a mirror and walk away forgetting what we look like. Likewise, we can memorize His words, repeat them over and over to ourselves, yet walk away forgetting everything we just did. Make it your goal to KEEP His words. The biggest test of whether or not you keep His words is whether or not you DO them. That’s when the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit actually move into your spirit and make themselves comfortable there.
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Marty DelmonWriter
Evangelist Teacher Writing has been in my blood, so to speak, but when I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ and He told me to write, all my trepidations rolled away and I began in earnest! After all, if God Almighty says it was His idea that I be a writer, who am I to stand in His way? My hope is that you not only like what I write, but that your life is moved by it, and that your party to Jesus and with Jesus turns your life into days of Heaven on Earth.
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