Obey His CommandmentsDo I love you LORD? The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the LORD. ~AW Tozer
“Why O LORD do You make us wander from Your ways and harden our hearts so we do not revere You?” - Isaiah 63:17
“Our LORD told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united, that the keeping of His sayings would prove that we loved Him and the failure or refusal to keep them would prove that we did not.” – AW Tozer
“If you love Me, you will obey what I command.” – John 14:15
“Unfortunately we have opposing us the lusts of the flesh, the attractions of the world and the temptations of the devil. These complicate our lives and require us to make determined moral decisions on the side of Christ and His commandments.” – AW Tozer
“Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.” - John 14:21
What about you? When is the last time you really asked yourself: “Do I love God?” “But God demonstrates His own love toward us in this: that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:8 Do you love Him enough to die for Him? More importantly, do you love Him enough to live for Him? If you don’t love Christ enough to work toward making every thought and action captive to His commandments, do you really love Him at all?
“The Christian cannot be certain of the reality and depth of his love until he comes face to face with the commandments of Christ and is forced to decide what to do about them. So the final test of love is obedience. Not sweet emotions, not willingness to sacrifice, not zeal, but obedience to the commandments of Christ.” – AW Tozer
“15If you love Me, you will obey what I command…. 21Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him…23If anyone loves Me, he will obey My teaching. My Father will love him, and We will make our home with him. 24He who does not love Me will not obey My teaching.” ~John 14:15,21,23,24
Soli Deo Gloria |