– Scripture:
I write this, dear children, to guide you out of sin. But if anyone does sin, we have a Priest-Friend in the presence of the Father: Jesus Christ, righteous Jesus. When he served as a sacrifice for our sins, he solved the sin problem for good—not only ours, but the whole world’s. Here’s how we can be sure that we know God in the right way: Keep his commandments. If someone claims, “I know him well!” but doesn’t keep his commandments, he’s obviously a liar. His life doesn’t match his words. But the one who keeps God’s word is the person in whom we see God’s mature love. This is the only way to be sure we’re in God. Anyone who claims to be intimate with God ought to live the same kind of life Jesus lived.
1 John 2:1–6 MSG
Key Verse – Anyone who claims to be intimate with God ought to live the same kind of life Jesus lived.
– Reflection:
The Only Way To Know We’re In Him
On some nights, as I walk around in the gym I find myself having to change how I walk sometimes my pace slows, other times I have to hurry up so as not to be run over! Many times my route is a bit more quickened to dodge the ambling child in front of me. Other nights, however, I have somewhere else to be (often in my mind, somewhere else more important) I keep my pace, find a clear route and get out of the way as quickly as possible my gait doesn’t change one bit. Being in that gym with those guys watching them pickup what we are pouring into them is amazing. Each face watching and paying attention some are not but each starts to learn in their own way. I bet that was probably how Jesus felt as he looked around at the people he was leading too. I like to think so anyway.
Where do we go from here?
What would it look like to abide in Christ in such a way that we “walk just as he walked”? How would our pace around the youth or others be changed? Where would you slow down to be present, and where would you be quickened to be by the side of another? How might our most efficient routes be stretched to meet those on the margins in life? Where would our business march be turned into skips of joy?!
Our Prayer for Today
Father, we praise you for your rhythms of moving in this world. Shake us out of our day to day routine that we may be awakened to your movement among us. And as we join in your way, may we receive the joy of Jesus being alive.