Leviticus 26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

Recently I made the comment that the word if is an opportunity. My basis of thinking is rather Old Testament. Condition blessing are extended to those who act upon the if. If you will, God will. The OT provisions of God were performance based.

The if offer was very black and white. I like the black and white, it helps me define the line, the clear contrast. Now we who live in the period of grace discover ourselves in an era of mercy and grace wherein God loves us no matter how iffy we get. The demarcation line seems to have been blurred.

John 14:15a If ye love me,

If is now an opportunity to demonstrate love. If one loves, do we not care about those things our love cares about? Being one, in love, do we not share the same passions and concerns? If we love do we not do things together?

The greatest part of being in love with Jesus is knowing His love is perfect, even if ours is not. His love is not conditional. We do not have to do anything to earn His love, we have it. We do get iffy. We are not perfect and that is part of the journey we make with our Lord and Savior.

Ephesians 3:17-19 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.