Jesus told the disciples that the inheritance that He was leaving them with is peace, and not as the world gives. They were not to let their hearts be troubled or afraid.
The difference between the peace of the world and that of Jesus is that that of the world lasts only as long as everything is going on well but that which Jesus gives us not disturbed whether things are going on well or not.
Have you gotten the peace Jesus offers you? This is your inheritance is you are a wholehearted disciple of Jesus. Don't let the devil rob you of your inheritance. If at any time you have no peace in your heart, don't just assume it's ok, it's not okay. The devil has stolen it and you have to fight back and resist the devil in the name of Jesus.
Paul explains that peace is the referee in the heart of the believer. Col 3:15 When you have no peace, there something wrong which needs to be set right.
Let the peace of Christ guide you in every decision you make.
He reminded His disciples that He was going away but that should not worry them because He would come back and that the Father was greater than He.
He said He would not continue speaking because the ruler of this world was coming and had nothing in Him.
What a testimony about Jesus,that the devil could not find anything in Jesus that was if His character. He could accuse Him of nothing.
We are called to follow Jesus in His life, and we can seek to live such a life that the devil will not find anything in us that resembles Him such as pride, arrogance, murmuring and discontentment, lies, and every sought of sin. That He will find nothing to accuse us to God. He will not accuse us of making promises that we don't fulfil, or debts we fail to pay, or bitterness and unforgiveness to those who wrong us, or failing to make restitution of things that belong to others, or failing to apologise when we hurt others....
Someone said that the journey of 1000miles begins with a single step, and another said that the hardest thing is the one you are yet to start. We can decide that we don't want the devil to find in us something He can accuse us of, and thus we will begin with the little things we remember and can be set right soonest possible and then progress to the more difficult things. Decide in your heart that what needs to be set right in your life, you will set it right at the first opportunity.
Jesus said that does what the Father requires of Him, so that the world will know that I love the Father.
For the disciples, is there any other way to show the world the we love the Father but by doing exactly what He commands us?
Obedience to God is the only mark of our love to God. Not what we say but what we do.
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