As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another. (John 15:9-17, NRSV)
If you love me you will keep my commandments…
Interesting…
You see Jesus never said, “In order for you to earn my love you have to follow my commandments.”
He told us, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments, and those are love God and love your neighbor as yourself.”
You see God chose you to be His hands and feet to go and share His love with all of the world. He gave us His commands so that we could love ona another!
And the reason we are to love, so that we may have His joy, and because of that our joy may be complete!
If we can follow His commands and love God and each other, then there will be complete joy!
And I do not know anybody who doesn’t want complete joy!
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