Thursday April 6
Bible Reading: 1 John 3: 1 - 9
Topic: Behold What Manner Of Love
An experience of the new
birth (salvation) is the greatest miracle in any one's life.
In our Text, John is
astonished at the manner of love by which God has loved us (John 3: 16) which
results in men and women being called Children of God.
This wonderful experience
he says give hope and calls for diligence and dutifulness.
The hope is that the
experience of son-ship is not only in time but for eternity.
There will be resurrection
experience in which believers will be clothed with new bodies and new
identities. (2 Phil. 3: 21)
In view of this hope,
therefore a Christian should be diligent to live a lifestyle that keeps him
separated from the world.
To do this, he must
dutifully walk in the light of the Word of God and keep himself in the Love of
God by keeping God's Commandments.
He stresses repeatedly
that a Christian who abides in Christ while at the same time continues in
habitual sin is a contradiction.
Those who habitually sin
have no true knowledge or experience of God's salvation.
So do not be deceived,
obedience to the Gospel is the only manifestation of being born of God, not
Church attendance.
Prayer:
Lord help me to continue
to abide in You, for I pray in Jesus Name, Amen.
Memory verse: 1 John 3: 8
"He that committeth
sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this
purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the
devil"
(The Daily Devotional Guide of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion)
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