Keeping God’s Word

What does it mean to keep your word? What does it mean to keep God’s word? Can we keep our word without keeping God’s word as followers of Jesus?

We are each called to keep God’s word in obedience to him as followers of Jesus. We are to be doers of the word and not hearers only.

The book of James tells us, “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” (James 1:22, NKJV).

When we keep the word of God we are true to God and true to ourselves. When we obey God, we live in integrity with God and with ourselves.

In the Gospel of John, Jesus says, “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” (John 14:21, ESV).

When we obey God and do what God tells us to do, we demonstrate our love for God. When we obey God and show our love for him, God responds in his love for us and reveals himself more fully and deeply to us.

If we want to experience the love of God and his greater presence and revelation of himself in our lives, we must do what God tells us to do in obedience to his word.

May we demonstrate our love for God as we obey God and experience his love for us as he reveals himself more and more to us and is present with us.

A Collect for the Sixth Sunday of Easter: Rogation: “O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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