~  Listen while you read, please!  ~

I love Jesus (I love Jesus); Yes, I do (Yes, I do)
I love Jesus (I love Jesus); How about you? (How about you?)
I love Jesus, yes, I do; I love Jesus, how about you?

     The bottom line…the way to win…is up with Jesus…down with sin
     The Word is clear…easy to see…only Christ can set you free

I love Jesus (I love Jesus); Yes, I do (Yes, I do)
I love Jesus (I love Jesus); How about you? (How about you?)
I love Jesus, yes, I do; I love Jesus, how about you?

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(Are you be-bopping around the house by now?)  Every week I have the joy of listening to this song…well, actually Yancy’s version…as I sit while my 6 year old granddaughter, Kaylie Joy, has her dance lessons.  This is the song they are going to use for their tap dance in the recital.  And the most fun thing is to watch them sing the song!  It’s been quite a number of times now that they have heard the song…and they are understanding what they are singing at this point…too cute! They DO love Jesus…ummm, how about you?

Or, really, my question is ‘Since you love Jesus, how does it show?”  As in your relationship with anyone else whom you love, it is not in the constant reiteration or professing of your love but in your actions which prove your love.  Yes?  How much more so should it be in our relationship with our Lord?  He has given us such example of ‘proof’ of His love and we should be willing to do the same. Jesus said,

If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands
John 14:15 AMP

The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me.
And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father.
I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.
Verse 19-21

Jesus was at that time preparing His disciples for His leaving them.  They didn’t understand Him and questioned Him about it.  How kind, how compassionate, how loving that their Lord just kept pursuing helping them to get it!  He knew it would be difficult for them when He had to go and promised them a Comforter, a Helper Who would lead and guide them as He had done.  He loved them.

In fact, this is love for God: to keep His commands.
And His commands are not burdensome,
1 John 5:3

Jesus gave them two commands under which all other things He had told them to do would fall.

And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
This is the great and first commandment.
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 22:37-40

So, it would seem to me that to really say “I love Jesus” you must be loving. Would you leave a comment below sharing how you profess your love for Jesus through your obedience to His commands?  Thanks!  Jesus loves y.o.u. this I know for the Bible tells me so!