Posted 2/2/2013
SCRIPTURE: 1 JOHN 2: 7-17 (The Message Translation)
- 7 ¶ my dear friends, I’m not writing anything new here. This is the oldest commandment in the book, and you’ve known it from day one. It’s always been implicit in the Message you’ve heard.
- 8 On the other hand, perhaps it is new, freshly minted as it is in both Christ and you—the darkness on its way out and the True Light already blazing!
- 9 Anyone who claims to live in God’s light and hates a brother or sister is still in the dark.
- 10 It’s the person who loves brother and sister who dwells in God’s light and doesn’t block the light from others.
- 11 But whoever hates is still in the dark, stumbles around in the dark, doesn’t know which end is up, blinded by the darkness.
- 12 ¶ I remind you, my dear children: Your sins are forgiven in Jesus’ name.
- 15 Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.
- 16 Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him.
- 17 The world and all it’s wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.
DEVOTIONAL:
TIC-TOCK
The oldest commandment in the book is; “Love One Another” God has not changed that nor has He made it an option. There is no double life in Christianity. You cannot hate a brother or a sister and love God. Either you are in the light resulting in loving on another or you are in the dark, resulting in being a hater! Here is a reminder list of actions because you are in the Light.
- 1.Your sins are forgiven. (vv 12)
- 2.Don’t love the world or the world’s ways.
- 3.Love of the world and its goods or wanting to appear important squeezes out Love for the Father.
- 4.Whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.(vv. 17)
- 5.The world is on its way out. Prepare to meet God!
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