“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” (John 14:15-21 ESV)
God Loves us! He has demonstrated that. Our proper is response is to love and obey Him. We need help with that - a lot of help. Jesus' statements here are not stand-alone proverbs or random. The very next statement after his connection of love and obedience is the promise of the Holy Spirit to help us love and obey. He loves us enough to give us what we need to do what He wants us to do. Do we trust Him? Do we love Him? Will we obey Him?
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