John 14:23 - Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and He will come to him and make Our abode with him.
Thoughts: When we have a love for Jesus and strive to keep His commands, we will experience true freedom. God sets up boundaries for us not to enslave us but to set us free. He knows what is best for us and when we submit ourselves to Him, we will experience a true freedom like we have never experienced before. God wants nothing more than to love us. So sit down in the loving arms of Jesus and just let Him love you. You don’t have to earn or deserve it. When we allow Him to love us we will be truly free to worship Him without reservation.
When I think of the word abode, I think home. It symbolizes a place of comfort, a place where I can truly be myself. Talk about the world's best roommate. Home is the place where you can always go to feel safe and wanted. Now, I know all homes are not like this but here we are talking about God's home. Put away everything you know about home. This is a whole new ball of wax.
Because we have our abode with God, we don't always have to be praying we can just be with Him. We can just sit in His presence. I am currently reading a book about Brother Lawrence, a Carmelite from France, who wrote many letters about just being in the presence of God. His idea was that every moment of our lives should be present to God and that prayer time and any other time need not be different. I would think this is probably a glimpse of what heaven will be like. Always in the presence of God. The book is title, "The Practice of the Presence of God".
If you need me for anything, I will be here hanging out with God.
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