One
of the signs that we love Jesus is the fact that we obey His
commands. If we love Him, we will also place a high value upon His
commands and make adhering to them a priority. The results of this
will be for us a growing revelation of Jesus and His purposes.
Placing
a high value upon the commands of Jesus doesn’t mean we wear them
in a little box between our eyes or have them hanging from our
wrists. While that can be very symbolic of what guides us and what
we set our hands to, that doesn’t mean that we think they are of value to us.
Having
them printed on our shirts, posters, pictures, doors, cars, business
cards, signs, etc still doesn’t mean that we value them. Having
them underlined in our bibles, memorized, on cards in our pockets, on
our key chains, etc still doesn’t mean that we value them.
Their
value to us is only shown by how much we let them effect our lives.
If they truly are valuable to us we will let them have great effect
upon our lives. We will let them determine what is right or wrong,
acceptable or not acceptable. We will let them set the course of
our thoughts and our lives. We will ‘eat his words’,
internalizing them and letting them be life in us, a part of us.
As
these commands become part of us, part of our lives, doing them is
not a burden, for they are in our hearts and we want to do them. And
look at the results of our loving Jesus and obeying His commands. We
will receive a broader understanding and experiencing of the love of
God.
Along
with this Jesus will also begin to reveal more and more of Himself to
us. We will experience His love and release it to others as Jesus
becomes more and more real to us. The Amplified Bible says in John
14:21
The
person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really]
loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father,
and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to
him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real
to him.]
