GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 29

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS, YOU……. HELP ME LEAP OVER A WALL………………..PS 18:29

JESUS, YOU…………WILL REJOICE OVER ME TO DO ME GOOD…..JER. 32:41a

JESUS, YOU……….ARE THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT…. 2 Cor. 1:3

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Today is more of the chapter in Abide in Christ, entitled “And in Love to Fellow Believers.” Andrew Murray is the author of this classic, 1800’s book.

THE WORD FOR TODAY

John 13:15

“For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.”

In Christ’s dealings with His disciples, this brotherly love finds the law of its conduct.  As it studies His forgiveness and forbearance toward His friends, with the seventy times seven as its only measure, (Matthew 18:21-22) – as it looks to His unwearied patience and His infinite humility, as it sees the meekness and lowliness with which He seeks to win for Himself a place as their servant, wholly devoted to their interests – it accepts with gladness His command, “….You should do as I have done to you.” (John 13:15). Following His example, each lives not for himself, but for the other.  The law of kindness is on the tongue, for love has owed that never will one unkind word cross its lips.  It refuses not only to speak, but even to hear or to think evil; it is more jealous of the name and character of the fellow Christian than of its own.  My own good name I may leave to the Father; my brother’s good name has been entrusted to me by my Father.  In gentleness and loving-kindness, in courtesy and generosity, in self-sacrifice and charity, in its life of blessing and of beauty, the divine love, which has been shed abroad in the believer’s heart, shines out as it shone in the life of Jesus.

Christian, what say you of this your glorious calling to love like Christ?  Does not your heart bound at the thought of the unspeakable privilege of thus showing forth the likeness of Eternal Love?  Or are you, rather, ready to sigh at the thought of the inaccessible height of perfection to which you are thus called to climb?  Brother, sigh not at what is indeed the highest token of the Father’s love, that He has called us to be like Christ in our love, just as Christ was like the Father in His love.

Understand that He who gave the command in such close connection with His teaching about the Vine and the abiding in Him gave us, in that same teaching, the assurance that we only have to abide in Him to be able to love like Him.  Accept the command as a new motive to a fuller abiding in Christ.

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