So this blog is about my love journey with Jesus...and He gave me a more concrete response on Day 3 :John 17
This is the most beautiful, perfect prayer I've ever read and It's for me. Though His death was fst approaching, His hunters climbing the hill to arrest Him and start the long torturous, humiliating, degrading, painful process...Jesus blessed the Father. Thanked Him for using Him to be the light of the world, to glorify God yet while He was still in the world. Then Jesus prayed for His disciples, that God would protect them and strengthen them for the belong to Jesus. AND next He prayed for me...a believer. One who has not seen but yet believe in Him.
Jesus asked God on my behalf to know God = eternal life. To partake and share the love that is between Him and the Father. This makes my heart rejoice and I know understand real love found in John 17.
The key points I took away are:
-No one can seperate me from Jesus' or God's love (John 10:28)
-I came to Him because He's in me and I'm not rejected (John 6:37)
-Jesus came for me, to rescue me (John 3:17)
-God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit were before this world was formed ( Gen 1:1)
-I belong to Jesus and was given to Him so that God would live through me (John 8:51)
-Jesus shared His wisdom & knowledge, He lived with us, He loved us, He walked this earth with us. He is a friend. (John 1:4, 15:15)
-God sent Jesus and Jesus obeyed (John 8:42, 16:27)
-I am commanded to help others with the most amazing helper = Holy Spirit that dwells in me (Luke 22:32)
-The world will hate me because I am not of the world. But I am commanded to serve Jesus by exercising mercy, love, justice at all times, like He did. (John 10:38, John 15:19, 1 John 3:18)
-I am made clean by the word (John 15:3) andGod has been faithful to cleanse me of my sins for He is righteous (1 John 1:9)
-I partake in His glory if I serve Him (John 12:26)
My favorite that sums up everything = God Loves me, Jesus Loves me, and I am forever in their love...(John 15:9-17)
"9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
Now remain in my love.
10If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love,
just as I have obeyed my Father's commands
and remain in his love.
11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you
and that your joy may be complete.
12My command is this:
Love each other as I have loved you.
13Greater love has no one than this,
that he lay down his life for his friends.
14You are my friends if you do what I command.
15I no longer call you servants,
because a servant does not know his master's business.
Instead, I have called you friends,
for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
16You did not choose me,
but I chose you and appointed you to go
and bear fruit—fruit that will last.
Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
17This is my command: Love each other.
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