His Presence

 If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him. (John 14:23 KJV)

 An abode is a place where someone lives. So They will come and make Their home with us, as some translations render that verse.

 Jesus is saying that if we love Him, we’ll keep His words, and that the Father will love us, and that They—Jesus and the Father through the presence of the Holy Spirit—will come live in us.

To be a fruitful Christian, according to what Jesus taught, is to live in Jesus and to have Him living in us. And the more we live in Him, and the more we relinquish our nature to His Spirit dwelling in us, the more of Him will shine through us.

 His thoughts, His attitudes, His actions and reactions, will more and more become our own. When we make decisions, they will be the decisions He would like us to make.

 We will take on more of His characteristics, more of His love, kindness, meekness, and all the other fruits of the Spirit. We will be more like Him. —P. Amsterdam [1]

 One hour of real communion with God is worth more than a lifetime of everything else. —Waterbury

[1] P. Amsterdam Anchor The Influence od His Presence