“Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.”
John 14:23-24 NIV
Keeping His Word
“Just how far removed we had already become from Britain even in the nineteenth century was not well understood in the mother country,” begins an essay in the first pages of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. “So it happened that the first person in recorded history who ever spoke of ‘Canadian English’ did so disparagingly. The Rev. A. Constable Geikie, in an address to the Canadian Institute in 1857, ten years before Confederation, stated that ‘Canadian English’ was ‘a corrupt dialect.'”
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Young people who get involved in youth organizations are taught the importance of integrity. I remember from my youth the Scouts Canada pledge: “I promise that I will do my best. To do my duty to God and the Queen. To help other people at all times, and to carry out the spirit of the Scout Law.” We repeated that at every meeting and here I am, some five decades later, still remembering it. If that is the promise that Scouts make, how much more important is it for a follower of Jesus to walk, talk and live like a follower of Jesus. Jesus says this in John 14:23-24: “’Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.’” Your proof of truly loving Jesus is living for Him. Are you obeying His teaching in every part of your life?
These have been words from the heart.
Bob Beasley