“Remain In My Love”
“This is to my Father’s glory, that you
bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
“As
the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my
commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands
and remain in his love. I
have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be
complete. My command is
this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for
one’s friends. You are my
friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know
his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that
I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and
appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so
that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.
John
15:8-17
Sometimes we sow
seeds of hope without really knowing it. Sometimes the fruit of our lives comes
in a way and time you would never expect.
Maybe we die young
and change lives, or maybe we die at an older age and change lives. The point
is to live your own life as if this might be your last day on earth. You may
get no advance warning. You may not get a chance to make things right.
All of us are
writing a story with our lives – one that affects others now and in the future.
Are we living to please God? We don’t know when the Lord will call us Home. Let’s
live every day with an eye on the harvest.
A
fruitful harvest requires a faithful life.
Our Daily Bread
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