If ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments.

— John 14:15

Our Lord never insists upon obedience; He tells us very emphatically
what we ought to do, but He never takes means to make us do it. We
have to obey Him out of a oneness of spirit. That is why whenever Our
Lord talked about discipleship, He prefaced it with an IF – you do
not need to unless you like. “If any man will be My disciple, let him
deny himself,” let him give up his right to himself to Me. Our Lord
is not talking of eternal positions, but of being of value to Himself
in this order of things, that is why He sounds so stern (cf. Luke
14:26). Never interpret these words apart from the One Who uttered
them.

The Lord does not give me rules, He makes His standard very clear,
and if my relationship to Him is that of love, I will do what He says
without any hesitation. If I hesitate, it is because I love some one
else in competition with Him, viz., myself. Jesus Christ will not
help me to obey Him, I must obey Him; and when I do obey Him, I
fulfil my spiritual destiny. My personal life may be crowded with
small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I
obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become
pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face
to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands
were blessed. When once God’s Redemption comes to the point of
obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ,
the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because
behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.

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• 1 Peter 5 - 2011
• What Is the Recession For? Some of God's Purposes - 2009
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