“We Will Come To Them
And Make Our Home
With Them”
“If you love me, you will keep my
commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate,
to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he
abides with you, and he will be in you.”
“I will not leave you orphaned; I am
coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will
see me; because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that I am
in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who have my commandments and
keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my
Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.” Judas (not Iscariot)
said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us, and not to
the world?” Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my
Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Whoever
does not love me does not keep my words; and the word that you hear is not
mine, but it is from the Father who sent me.”
As believers of Christ we should not
be tricked or forced into doing what is right. We should want to. In fact, obedience
can be drained of its significance if we obey only out of obligation or duty.
Our desire should be to do what is pleasing to our Lord because we love Him.
Let’s do what
is right out of a heart of gratitude for His grace to us.
Our desire to
please God is our highest motive for obeying God.