If you love me, do what I ask. I don’t know if any or you parents have used that scripture on your kids, but it sure works with mine! It is found in John 14:15 and it is the best way I know how to get chores done quickly! God is telling us some very specific things that are very important for our life. If we really do love God, we aren’t going to be checking to see how close to the edge we can walk when it comes to sin. We are going to be staying close to Him, listening to His voice and ignoring the voice of a stranger as it says in John 10. We do need to be sensitive to the Spirit of God, and because we live in a fallen world, there are lots of opportunities to walk into the snare of the enemy totally innocently. We can guarantee our demise when we follow the wrong path on purpose. God loves you enough to ask you to obey Him. We love our kids enough to ask them to obey us. Raising kids in this crazy world is hard, but it becomes easier as we as parents follow God’s law, and our kids make the choice to obey. So you want to show God that you really love Him? Do what He asks of you. Obey his Book! Obey His voice! Maybe even with a happy attitude. Wouldn’t it be a blessing if we all acted that way? Kids obeying parents, spouses being considerate to each other, demonstrating God’s love, by being willing to do what is asked of them! Maybe your kids will blow you away by saying, sure mom or dad, I’d love to whatever you ask, just because I love you!
John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves. 12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. 15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments.
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