Trust Me enough to be real with me.
I shall no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know the master’s business; I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father.
John 15:15 (New Jerusalem Bible)
Jesus states: I am Lord of lords and King of kings. I am the All-Powerful, Almighty God, Creator of all the universe – and I want to be your Friend. When you come to Me, don’t put on a show. Don’t try to use fancy words or rehearse your prayers. When you pretend to be someone that you are not, you hurt Me. I love you just as you are. I know the worst about you, but I also see the very best in you. When you are with someone you trust completely, you feel free to be yourself. That is one of the greatest things about true friendship. And that is the kind of friendship I want to have with you.
Jesus Concludes: Trust Me enough to be real with me.
John 15:13-15; 2 Thessalonians 3:16; Revelation 17:14
Passage John 15:13-14: 13No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
Footnotes John 15:13-15: If we say: “We should love our neighbor because this is the only commandment”, we will achieve nothing; because each one understands love in his own way. Moreover, we need to receive from the source of all love the ability to love selflessly. Therefore, we are asked to first share the thinking of Christ, which is keeping His commandment. Thus, becoming His friends, knowing Him as a person Who loves us and acts in us. Later we will produce authentic fruit of love whose sources is Christ.
Passage 2 Thessalonians 3:16: May the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.
Footnotes 2 Thessalonians 3:16: Despite this, Paul began his letter with a condemnation of the church’s persecutors, he ends it with a commendation of the whole Church to the Lord and to His grace. A peaceful church experiences the Lord’s Joy and Peace and it projects a good testimony to the lost. This prayer is for us all: the idle and the obedient believers, the shirkers and the workers.
Passage Revelation 17:14: and they will go to war against the Lamb; but because the Lamb is Lord of lords and King of kings, he will defeat them, he and his followers, the called, the chosen, the trustworthy.
Footnotes Revelation 17:14: Every believer is associated with Christ’s victory, as long as she remains constant in her faith.
Jesus Tells us is from the Jesus Calling 365 Devotions for kids.
THE WORLD…we see history
MARTIN LUTHER KING
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (1929–1968) is the man, most responsible for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the voting rights act of 1965. It was 1954 and the U.S. Supreme Court had ordered the desegregation of schools. But with racism and inequality still rampant in many sectors of society, a young preacher from Atlanta, the latest in a family line of ministers, decided to join—in fact, help launch “the movement.” By 1955, Martin Luther King Jr. had assumed leadership of the historic Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, which triggered similar actions throughout the South, and in 1957 he founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which advocated a nonviolent struggle for justice. King was one of the greatest, his biblical cadences (Balanced, rhythmic flow).
The WORD…we see Jesus, His Story!
In 1958, as his wife, Coretta Scott King, looks on, Dr. King is shoved against
the police station desk after being arrested for loitering at the Montgomery Courthouse.
When the officers learned who they had busted, they released him.
In march after march, he led them: in Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma, Washington, D.C.—where he declared his dream, “that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Because of his tactics and persona, he was not seen as “radical” like others who were fighting for equality in this era, and he was listened to by many who turned a deaf ear to the Black Panthers, certainly, and to Malcolm X. When King’s followers kept their dignity and poise as they were being assaulted by dogs and fire hoses, and Americans saw this on the nightly news, public opinion turned. There is still prejudice and inequity, to be sure. But the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. effected tangible change before he was assassinated in Memphis in 1968—his work not yet done, but well and truly started.
Source Life Magazine 100 People Who Changed the World 2020 special edition https://www.amazon.com/LIFE-100-People-Changed-World/dp/1547852860