Jesus said, “Whoever has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me.” (Jn 14:21). And He goes on to give a beautiful promise, “The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love them and show Myself to them.”
This means that there is a CONDITION to abiding in Jesus’ and God’s LOVE! This is not something you will hear in most “churches” on Sunday mornings. But, if you truly love Jesus, you will KNOW AND KEEP His commands. And you cannot KNOW them if you are not in His Word regularly. One of God’s commands is to “meditate on My Word day and night” so God says we are to be in His Word DAILY! If you are not in His Word, you are being disobedient to God. And God gives us this command not for Him, as it doesn’t benefit God if we know His Word or not, but He does this for us. To protect ourselves from the wickedness of the world and to protect our families from the wickedness of the world. And, if we are not in His Word regularly, then we cannot and will not even KNOW God’s Word, let alone, be able to keep it.
How God speaks to us is through His Word. This is why it is called His “living, breathing Word.” And, if you ignore His Word, you ignore God! So you must be IN God’s Word to know it.
And, you must ...
