How can I show God I really love Him?

If you love Me, you will obey what I command...whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me...

He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I, too, will love him and show Myself to him...

If anyone loves Me, he will obey My teaching. My Father will love him and we will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me will not obey My teaching.
                      John 14:15, 21, 23, 24


What we learn from these verses:

• Obedience is our action toward God in response to His love for us.

• Obedience is the outward expression to others of our love for Him.

• Obedience is doing what He tells us to do - when He tells us to do it - with the right heart attitude! (That's what we learned in Sunday School!)

• Obedience is how we show God we really love Him.

• The result of our obedience (love) for God is that He will come to us and reveal Himself to us (make His home with us!)

• If we have an obedience problem, we have a love problem!

• If we love God we will obey Him!

It's so profoundly simple!



From Experiencing God, by Henry and Richard Blackaby and Claude King....

Obey What You Already Know to be God's Will

Some people want God to give them an assignment to do for Him. They vow that they will do whatever He asks. God observes their lives. He notices that they have not obeyed what He has already told them to do.

Do you think God would give new assignments to a servant who had not obeyed what He previously commanded?

When God gives you the Ten Commandments, are you obeying them?

When Jesus tells you to love your enemies, are you doing that?

When Jesus tells your church to make disciples of all nations, are you doing all you know to obey Him?

When God tells you through Scripture to live in unity with your Christian brothers and sisters, are you doing it?

God doesn't give you His commands so you can choose the ones you want to obey and neglect the rest. He wants you to obey all His commands from your love relationship with Him.

When He sees you are faithful and obedient in a little, He will trust you with more. The Holy Spirit will guide you daily to the specific commands God wants you to obey that day.