Live to Love Scripture Encouragement John 15.10

John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. In this verse we learn an astounding lesson about the love of the Father for His Son and the Son’s love for us. Love, the sustained direction of the will toward the highest good of another, no matter what the cost, expressed that love by giving a command to love. How did the Father love Jesus and what did Jesus do to love His disciples that the Father did to love Him? The Father loved His Son by commanding Him to come to earth and love those given to Him with Him, the Father. In just the same love, Jesus commanded His disciples to love those given to Him with Him, the Son. Let this sink in! Meditate on this glorious truth until your soul is filled with wonder and awe and your life takes on His purpose for life: to make disciples who live to love with Jesus. To love them by teaching them Jesus’ command, namely, to love those who are His with Him. Or to put it in the terms of Jesus’ analogy, to bear fruit for the glory and joy of the vinedresser, His Father. It is in the Sons’ highest good to please His Father by obeying His command to love in His name. It is in the disciples’ and our highest good to obey Jesus’ command to love in His name. We’ll see why this is in our highest good tomorrow. Today, the Son has loved us by commanding us to live to love with Him. Can you imagine a branch not obeying? It’s the very nature of the branch to do so. It’s why it was made. Acknowledgment: Music from “Carried by the Father” by Eric Terlizzi. www.ericterlizzi.com