GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 27

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS, YOU…….. FREELY GIVE ME ALL THINGS…………..Romans 8:32

JESUS, YOU………….TELL ME YOUR SECRETS………PS 25:14

JESUS, YOU……………ANSWER ME EVEN BEFORE I FINISH ASKING…….Is 65:24

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THE WORD FOR TODAY

John 15:12

“This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”

In the book, Abide in Christ, written by Andrew Murray, we are beginning the final chapter that we will study.  It is entitled, “And In Love to Fellow Believers.”

“ As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you.” (John 15:9)

“As I have loved you ….you also love one another.” (John 13:34).

God became man; divine love began to run in the channel of a human heart; it becomes the love of man to man.  The love that fills heaven and eternity is to be seen here daily in the life of earth and of time.

“This is My commandment,” the Savior said, “that you love one another, as I have loved you.”  He sometimes spoke of commandments, but the love, which is the fulfilling of the law, is the all-including one and, therefore, is called His commandment – the new commandment.  It is to be the great evidence of the reality of the new covenant, of the power of the new life revealed in Jesus Christ.  It is to be the one convincing and indisputable token of discipleship:

“By this shall all men know that you are my disciples.” (John 13:35):

 “That they also may be one in us: that the world may believe” (John 17:21).

“That they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that you have…loved them, as You have loved Me.” (John 17:23)

To the believer seeking perfect fellowship with Christ, the keeping of this commandment is at once the blessed proof that he is abiding in Him and the path to a fuller and more perfect union.

Let us try to understand how this is so.  We know that God is love and that Christ came to reveal this, not as a doctrine, but as a life.  His life, in its wonderful self-abasement and self-sacrifice, was, above everything, the embodiment of divine love, the showing forth to men, in such human manifestations as they could understand, how God loves.  In His love to the unworthy and the ungrateful, in His humbling Himself to walk among men as a servant, in His giving Himself up to death, He simply lived and acted out the life of the divine love that was in the heart of God.  He lived and died to show us the love of the Father.

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