HE
WILL CONTINUE HIS CARE
Monday January 4, 2016
Text:
John 14:18 – 21 Memory
verse: v 18
When friends are parting it is always
emotional and it is even more disheartening when it is at the point where you
have just started knowing each other, and have started enjoying the
relationship. Jesus had just been with the disciples for three years and now he
was leaving. What do you think will be the feelings of these men who left
everything to follow Him? Jesus knew what will be in their minds and thus He promises
that He would continue to take care of them. I will not leave you orphans, for
though I leave you, yet I leave you this comfort that I will come back to you.
God’s care for us didn’t end with last
year. Just as Jesus did not end His care for His disciples but continued even
after His death and resurrection, so His care for us will continue from where
He stopped with us last year. We all know that every year, people try to
improve on what they were the previous year so God will improve on what He did
for you last year. However, it all depends on our love for God and His word.
The surest evidence of our love to Christ is obedience to His laws. Where
sincere love to Christ is in the heart, there will be obedience. Love will be a
commanding, constraining principle; and where love is, duty follows from a
principle of gratitude. The promises of God are confined to those whose faith
works by love, and whose love to Jesus leads them to keep His commandments.
Food
for Thought:
God is able to keep and care for all those who entrust their lives to His care
and protection.
Prayer: (1) God, I rededicate myself and family to your care and protection this year.
(2) Grant me the grace to love you and keep your commandments.
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