If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love (John 15:10).
These things cannot be separated--abiding in obedience and abiding in the love of Christ.
Travelers in the Alps tell us that they come to have a very peculiar feeling toward their mountain guides. It is not alone companionship, friendship, or fellowship, but really a combination of all three. They learn to obey the guide in everything as they have never obeyed anyone else.
Our Guide once said, "If ye keep me commandments, ye shall abide in my love." Obedience will produce a fellowship, a heart association, a nearness, that could never be produced by all the zeal and fervor in the world without obedience. Someone has said, "Obedience is the key that unlocks the door into the dwelling of the indwelling Christ." Do we have faith in Christ? Obedience is the test. "By their fruits ye shall know them" (Matt. 7:20).
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
To be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.
__Rev. J. H. Sammis
We have our Savior's example. He was obedient to His Father's commandments, and so abode in His love. Our Savior said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15). Everything goes back to love, after all. "Love is the fulfilling of the law" (Rom. 13:10), not its breaking, denial, or neglect.
When asked if she always came when her mother called, a little girl said, "Yes, but sometimes I go as far away I can't hear her call." Is that our trouble? Let us come close to Jesus and be obedient.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Teach me O Lord, the way of thy statues; and I shall keep it unto the end" (Ps. 119:33).
These things cannot be separated--abiding in obedience and abiding in the love of Christ.
Travelers in the Alps tell us that they come to have a very peculiar feeling toward their mountain guides. It is not alone companionship, friendship, or fellowship, but really a combination of all three. They learn to obey the guide in everything as they have never obeyed anyone else.
Our Guide once said, "If ye keep me commandments, ye shall abide in my love." Obedience will produce a fellowship, a heart association, a nearness, that could never be produced by all the zeal and fervor in the world without obedience. Someone has said, "Obedience is the key that unlocks the door into the dwelling of the indwelling Christ." Do we have faith in Christ? Obedience is the test. "By their fruits ye shall know them" (Matt. 7:20).
Trust and obey, for there's no other way
To be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.
__Rev. J. H. Sammis
We have our Savior's example. He was obedient to His Father's commandments, and so abode in His love. Our Savior said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15). Everything goes back to love, after all. "Love is the fulfilling of the law" (Rom. 13:10), not its breaking, denial, or neglect.
When asked if she always came when her mother called, a little girl said, "Yes, but sometimes I go as far away I can't hear her call." Is that our trouble? Let us come close to Jesus and be obedient.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Teach me O Lord, the way of thy statues; and I shall keep it unto the end" (Ps. 119:33).
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