Welcome to week 7 of
Scriptures Weekly. Here we have one of the greatest verbal expressions of love
by Jesus Christ to his disciples, and to us today. An important lesson to learn
here is that whatever we ask for in His name needs to be according to His will,
not ours. So often God is blamed for not delivering the goods we need. That's
because our asking must come from a pure heart and an obedient and patient
faith.
John 15:9-17,
"As the Father has loved
me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you
will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in
his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy
may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants,
because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called
you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to
you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might
go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name
the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other."
Many blessings
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