When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love,
just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
John 15:10
Jesus, I come to You today longing for Your presence.
Help me love You as You love me.
God the Son and God the Father have a very unique relationship that perfectly reflects love and trust. Even though Jesus is 100 percent God, while He was on earth—still 100 percent God, but now also 100 percent human—He yielded to the will of God the Father and obeyed His commands.
Can you see how significant that is? Jesus obeyed the Father as an act of love, and Jesus tells us that we need to obey Him as an act of love. Jesus modeled for us exactly the way we should understand and act out our love for God and obedience to God.
God’s love for us doesn’t stop if we stop obeying Him, but we experience God and His love and His work in our lives in unique ways as we choose to abide in Him.
REFLECT:
How can obeying God lead us to experience Him and His love and His work in our lives? What is something God wants you to do (or not do) that could open up this experience in your life?
RESPOND:
Thank God for the example He set for us in the relationship between Jesus and the Father. Ask Him to help you understand it more deeply and trust and obey it more fully as you abide in Him today.