If you know my story, you will not envy.
If you know my beaten path, you will not want a part.
You see lips that smile, underneath eyes that cry.
You see hands that hold steady, not the heart that is racing.
When you say you wish you had my choices, you do not know the crosses.
When you say you will give anything, you know nothing.
– Osasu Oviawe
John 14:21-26
He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me. “These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
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