If... Then

The If, Then Principle was something I learned in college.  I believe it was used in my science classes to show causality.  If you add "X" to "Y" (in a certain experiment or under specific conditions) then you yield "Z".  I feel that you can apply it to other things too.  For example: if you are a Chicago Blackhawks fan, then you are going to wear Blackhawks apparel, watch their games, and undoubtedly spiral into depression when they go on 6-8 game losing skids.   

"If you love Me, [then you will] keep My commandments." - John 14:15, NKJV

Does anyone else feel like they got punched in the stomach after reading that?  I added what's inside the brackets, but I feel its implied in what Jesus was saying.  I had to ask myself, "Alex, do you love Jesus?"... Well of course!  "Do you keep His commandments?".... uhh sometimes.  Jesus commanded us to love.  To love everyone: saved, unsaved, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, male, female, young, old, black, white, brown, smart, stupid, rich, poor, dirty, clean, annoying, popular, beautiful, ugly, mean, selfish, rude and any combination of the above.  We are to love others by serving them.  

Jesus also commands us to do things by speaking to us through the Holy Spirit.  I heard David Platt talk about how the God who spoke the whole world into existence tells the mountains to move and they move, He tells the rocks to cry out and they cry out, and He tell us to end a relationship, quit our job, move somewhere else, help someone, etc and we say no.  I have told God no.  The God who is sovereign, unchanging, all knowing, infinite, the God who created me and saved me... I've told Him no.  

If I love Jesus then there needs to be evidence of that in my life.  There needs to be fruit.  I need to continue to allow Jesus to have access to my heart so that He can further change it.  I need Him to infect me with His love so that I become contagious to all those I come in contact with.  

I think about Will Ferrell's character Jackie Moon from Semi-Pro who said "ELE"

"Everybody love everybody."

thats right, I just quoted Jesus and Jackie Moon in the same blog.... if its true and its good then I'm putting it up here!