3. Love Delighting to Dispense Its Blessings

Chapter 14. opens with the "eternal lover" about to be separated for a while from those He holds most dear, and skews us Himself, Who had loved unto death (chap. 12.), and Who loves still as the risen One (chap. 13.), about to confer with lavish hands priceless treasures on those He is leaving behind. Nothing delights love so much as bestowing favors on its objects. Nothing less will satisfy Him, Who said, “As My Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you," than that His own should consciously possess and enjoy the privileges He bestows.
He sweetly shows how we can pass through a troubled scene with an untroubled heart. He desires that His disciples may believe on Him, and thus confide their future to the care of His skillful hand, assuring them that He is leaving them for a little moment, to prepare an eternal home with Himself for them in His Father's house.
Jesus next tells them that His walk and ways on this earth were a faithful reflex of the Father's heart, and during his absence confides them to the care of that Father Who Himself loved them.
He then places the whole power of His "Name" at their disposal, and that according to its unspeakable value in the Father's eyes. "If ye shall ask anything in My Name, I will do it.”
His heart enters into their disconsolate condition during His absence, and provides for it by the gift of an abiding Comforter; so that they should not be left orphans, but that all things He had said should be graciously preserved for them. These very Scriptures prove the fulfillment of this promise, for are we not privileged to listen even now to the words of Jesus which then fell from His blessed lips?
Again He opens that bounteous hand and bestows another gift of grace. His own peace is conferred upon them as their present portion. In quality, if not in measure, that which He enjoyed as a stranger here is to be ours.
What more could this faithful lover of our souls have done for us? Has He not given us all that love could give? In response to His "I am coming again to receive you unto Myself, that where I am there ye may be also," do not we say, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus"?
H. N.