Yes, many of us moan and groan about how hard it is to live the Christian life, don’t we? We often feel like failures and sometimes even avoid church so that we don’t feel judged (even if no one in church is judging us!). Yet, the only conviction we are meant to feel is that from the Holy Spirit – and all He wants is for us to obey what He lays on our hearts. We are to have a relationship with God – and then live in the overflow of that relationship. God fills us up with life and holiness so that we may spread that truth and pass the message on! Why must we do this? This passage tells us – because He is coming again. We would hate to be running away from Him as He comes in power, wouldn’t we? He is returning, one day, and our goal for living correctly and for following Him is to be near Him when He returns. I could spend some time here riffing about how “the sheep will know” his voice and that we need to live rightly because then that will help us know the real Him when He returns. Secondly, John tells us again that he who lives correctly (righteously) is of Him because He is righteousness. I think this is very cool – hopefully you do too!
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