John 15:12-17

John 15:12-17 
English Standard Version (ESV)

  If you work for a large company, you may know the leadership, and may feel some loyalty towards them, but most employees aren't friends with executives -- there are too many employees and not enough executives.  The executives are often focused on strategies and making big decisions, and they carefully consider how to roll these out to the employees, who are not privy to the decision making process.
  Jesus operates with a different process.  He personally invests in each individual.  As Augustine said, God loves each of you as if there was only one to love.  Had you been the only one, Jesus still would have ascended the cross and died to save, and the Holy Spirit is investing in you, personally.  Also, the secrets of the Kingdom are not held closely by God, carefully revealed in a communications strategy.  Jesus tells us openly and plainly what God is doing, how we will be saved and about the eventual defeat of the enemy.  Jesus shares this with us because we are friends, and as a response, we are called to emulate Jesus, to love selflessly as we have been loved, to give freely as has been given to us, to share and to serve.