John 14:15

John 14:15 says, If ye love me, keep my commandments.  This verse contains what we might call the prime directive for Christians.  Jesus had just told them that He gave them a new commandment that they love one another as Jesus loved them.  I know that is not the only commandment, but it the one that Jesus had most recently given them.  The Ten Commandments served to point people to God, but the Commandments would now serve to show our faith in Christ.  How effectively do we keep the Commandments, especially the one to love one another?  Again, this was not just fellow Christians we were to love, but all people.  We might say this is impossible, but Jesus also had just said anything we ask in His name He will do.  Verse sixteen adds, And I will pray to the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever.  Jesus told them that even though He was going away, He was not leaving them alone.  He was asking the Heavenly Father to send them a Comforter, the Holy Spirit.  When we feel that something is impossible to do, we need to remember that as His followers, we have the Holy Spirit indwelling and empowering us. That is why we can do anything that God calls us to do.  We do not operate under our own power, but the power of the Holy Spirit.  There is never going to be a time when the Holy Spirit deserts us, if we are keeping God's commandments.  Verse seventeen continues, Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth in you, and shall be in you.  Jesus did not say when the Holy Spirit came that He would be in some, but instead in all who believed in Christ.  Verse eighteen concludes, I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.  Jesus was leaving His earthly ministry, but He was coming to them through the Holy Spirit.  We will never be left comfortless if we follow Him.