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John
  
9"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."


Jesus warns you, "Do not separate yourself from my love. I love you and look forward to evidence of your love for me. Where are your prayers, are they like a telephonic link with heaven? Where are your contributions to the needy responding to my saving work? I am exhorting you to do what is good, lovely, to kindness and holiness. Abide in my love. The Holy Spirit will impel you to do good, just as God does the good constantly."
It is sin not to love as God loves. Christ wishes to lift us up to the level of God’s mercy, "Be merciful as I and the Father am merciful". You may feel this is impossible. You are right, if the matter lay within the range of human thinking. But you do not know what Christ wants, what he can work in you. He pours his Spirit in you, so that you may love as he loves. In this spirit Paul says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
Jesus bore witness to the fact that he never crossed the limits from what was in harmony with his Father’s will, rather he was abiding in God’s love always. Christ brings about the Peace of God in us, prayer in the Spirit, and loving service.