To love and to love not
“If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” sounds like a big contradiction with “God so loved the world that he gave his only son.”
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Category: Weekly Devotional
Children, young men, and fathers in Christ
Regardless of how long one has been a believer in Jesus, there is always more to know, to grow, and to mature in intimacy with God.
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Would you rather have a pot of gold or a gold mine?
Would you rather have a pot of gold or a gold mine? Would you rather have a pot of silver or a silver mine? Gold and silver that is already refined are easier to use, but when it is used up or spent, you are done. A gold or silver mine requires lots of work to extract the metal and then refine it, but assuming it is a rich mine, it won’t run out and be done after the first pot of gold or silver. It will continue producing wealth for the mine owner willing to work the mine. This is like the proverb, give a man a fish and feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and he can feed himself forever. Is it better for someone to give you a fish or to teach you to fish?
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Love in the light
One can only walk in love if one walks in the light. Somehow, our culture has determined that truth and love are like oil and water; they don’t mix. Truth is seen as harsh and condemning, whereas love is soft and cuddly, and nonjudgmental. In this passage, John shows the fallacy of such reasoning.
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Why you can have confidence in prayer
Our God does not change. He does not change in his essence. He does not change in his attributes. He does not change regarding his promises. The fact that he does not change eternally gives us great confidence in prayer.
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Light banishes darkness…always
“God is light; in him there is no darkness at all” is the foundational truth of the letter of 1 John. All of the other statements in 1 John can be seen to have their foundation in this fundamental statement of the nature of God. In fact, one might apply this to all of Scripture since all creation is designed to bring glory to God.
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