No longer servants! Passage I dont call you servants now. A servant does not know what his master is doing. But now I call you friends because I have told you everything I heard from my Father. You did not choose me; I chose you. And I gave you this work: to go and make fruit. I want this fruit to continue {in your life}. Then the Father will give you anything you ask for in my name. This is my command: Love each other. — John 15:15-17 ERV (Read Full Text) Key Thought What is lasting fruit? In this context, Jesus wants his disciples to know that lasting fruit is loving one another. It is the theme that he repeatedly emphasizes in his last words with his disciples. While many other things are important, they will vanish, decay or die. Love, however, remains—it abides, it lasts. Death cannot separate us from Gods love. Love is stronger than death. So Jesus beckons his disciples to this deeper relationship. They are no longer his servants, but his friends. As his friends, they know what is on the Fathers heart and they are committed to displaying the Fathers priority in their own lives. They will love each other! Prayer Father in heaven, fill my heart with your love through your Holy Spirit that dwells in me. Motivate me to share that love with your children. Give me the courage to love others sacrificially like you have loved me. Help me produce fruit that will abide through all eternity. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Related Scriptures Jesus said, My children, I will be with you only a short time more. You will look for me. And what I told the Jewish leaders, I tell you now: Where I am going you cannot come. I give you a new command: Love each other. You must love each other like I loved you. All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other. — John 13:33-35 Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. The person who loves has become Gods child. And so the person who loves knows God. The person that does not love does not know God, because God is love. — 1 John 4:7-8 Love never ends. There are {gifts of} prophecy, but they will be ended. There are {gifts of speaking in different kinds of} languages, but those gifts will end. There is {the gift of} knowledge, but it will be ended. These things will end, because this knowledge and these prophecies we have are not complete (not perfect). But when perfection comes, the things that are not complete will end. When I was a child, I talked like a child; I thought like a child; I made plans like a child. When I became a man, I stopped those childish ways. It is the same with us. Now we see like we are looking into a dark mirror. But at that time, in the future, we shall see clearly. Now I know only a part. But at that time I will know fully, like God has known me. So these three things continue: faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love. — 1 Corinthians 13:8-13
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:48:56 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015