1 John 3:11-24
March 9 - March 16, 2014
This message really hits home and challenges me to be more like Jesus.
1 John 3:16-18
By this we know love, that He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay dow our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him. Little children let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
If we know of a need that our brothers or sisters have and we do not fulfill it, John says that we have closed our heart against them. This is difficult to hear having traveled around the world and seen the issues that face our brothers and sisters. There are many who are dying of thirst, hunger and exposure. Is my heart closed against them. Lord please, open my heart and break my heart moving me to compassion and a place of humble obedience to your call.
May the Lord bless us as we wrestle with how we are to live in light of this Scripture,
Geoff
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