14 March 2013 - the remain thing
Remain in my love.
Jesus is speaking to us. He first reminds us to remain in his love. The commandments are our guide in doing this. From the place of his love we are empowered to love one another. We can only love to the degree that we ourselves are first transformed by the love of Jesus
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
It isn't about our plans. It is about the plan he has for us. It isn't complicated. We bear fruit by loving one another as he loves us.
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you
and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain,
The fruit remains because it has its source in the power of his resurrection. Decay and death have no power over it. This is why when the apostles replace Judas Iscariot they want someone who will "become with us a witness to his resurrection.”
We are all called to be witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus, both to the historical event, and to its power in our lives, until the whole world knows.
From the rising to the setting of the sun
is the name of the LORD to be praised.
None of this is to be a burden. It starts in the love Jesus has for us and that is its ultimate purpose and end as well.
“I have told you this so that my joy might be in you
and your joy might be complete.
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