John 14:21-26
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them will be one who loves me… If anyone loves me he will keep my word…’ Jesus is telling us that there should be no difference between what we believe in and what we say from what we do. If we believe in love and say that we do love, we have to practice it.
We cannot say, “I love you” to someone and yet do unloving acts, like brothers who are courting someone and saying words of affirmation and yet is fishing on someone else or sisters who are playing with emotions of others. Real disciples are the one who can put their words into actions. The challenge of Christianity is not so much on preaching but practicing what we preach. Jesus was very clear; we can never live a double life.
It cannot be that we are good at words and yet do otherwise. We are to be word keepers, like Jesus whose words can be trusted.
Amen, Gelo, thanks for this reminder, I’m very guilty of this….