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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
John 15:9-10, “As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’scommandments, and abide in his love.”
To understand what it means to live a life of compatibility with the Lord, we need to consider the example of the Lord’s human living.
What we see in the Lord’s relationship with the Father is that His compatibility with the Father came out of His intimacy with the Father.
John 1:18 reveals that the only begotten Son is “into the bosom of the Father.”
This shows His intimate fellowship with the Father.
John 15:9-10 indicates that He was abiding in the Father’s love.
It was out of this kind of love-intimacy that He lived a life of complete compatibility with the Father’s life and will.
The Lord’s example reveals the principle by which we can live day by day being compatible with His voice.
It is simple.
Compatibility with the divine life comes by cultivating a life of intimacy.
We all recognize that this is true in the marriage life.
How is a wife compatible with her husband?
How does she live to please her husband?
The compatibility of a wife with her husband is dependent upon her intimacy with her husband.
Her intimacy with her husband creates and nurtures the desire to please him.
The Holy Spirit’s terms in the New Testament for compatibility are “pleasing” and “well pleasing.”
John 8:28-29 says, “Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.”
In other words, the reason for His compatibility with the Father was that He heard the Father’s voice because of His life of intimacy with the Father.
He was sensitive to what the Father taught Him, not only because the Father was with Him all the time, but also because He was always abiding in the Father’s love.
This was the reason there was such a constant supply coming from the Lord.
He lived in the Father and was always doing that which was compatible with the Father.
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
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