Keeping House With Them

Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. John 14:23

Yikes! Jesus and His Father are coming to live with me today. How clean is my house? What food should I fetch from the grocery store? As with many verses of promise, we may find it easy to skip over a couple of conditions that must happen first. Love appears to be the first conditional thing in this verse today. Have we like Peter loved Him more than these? While it is tempting to answer that one quickly, perhaps a bit of reflection on every person and thing in our lives might be better for us. Next comes keeping of His word. Jesus helps us with that by stating that if we have the first one down, the second will follow, and then all of the remaining action in this verse comes from our Lord and His Father.

Therefore, the first question we must ask of our Lord: What is this 'love' you speak of?

Bucky