If ye love Me…

The crowning characteristic of our love of Jesus Christ has been, is, and always will be, loyalty to Him. And how do we demonstrate that? He spoke of that plainly for those who will hear, putting it thus: “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” (John 14:15) We may proclaim all the day long, and loudly, our love for Jesus, but at some time there must come that still small voice whispering quietly to our mind and heart, the words of the Prophet Samuel to those feigning righteousness: “Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.” (1 Samuel 15:22)