Monday, February 27, 2012

walking in the light

Good morning friends,
Today's reading overlaps with one from last week from First John and continues his thought about putting our faith into practice. John also reflects on sin and forgiveness through Jesus. When we accept Jesus it changes out lives. We won't become perfect, but we will strive to do the right thing because we seek to follow where Jesus leads.
I pray you would be blessed in your discipleship today,
Sam


1 John 2:4-11
4Whoever says, “I have come to know him,” but does not obey his commandments, is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist; 5but whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has reached perfection. By this we may be sure that we are in him: 6whoever says, “I abide in him,” ought to walk just as he walked. 



7Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8Yet I am writing you a new commandment that is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. 9Whoever says, “I am in the light,” while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness. 10Whoever loves a brother or sister lives in the light, and in such a person there is no cause for stumbling. 11But whoever hates another believer is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.

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