The Devotional - jhn03

The Devotional

Comment: Do you remember your very first bike? I remember! My dad had returned from World War Two and he said he would get me a bicycle. My heart raced with emotion, I could not contain my thoughts and I rush to find my mom and tell her. She was excited too, but she cautioned me to be patient in that the bike may be a future present. My heart sank a little, but I had faith in my dad’s words. As Christmas grew near I saw a beat up and rusty bike in the shed out back, and as the days past my dad would spend an hour or two with me at his side repairing the bicycle. When it came time to paint it, he allowed me to do some of the painting. A rusty sort brown orange color, I was sort of unhappy with the color and explained to him that if that was to be the color, than I would have to learn to like it. He laughed but told me that from this point on I could not come with him to the shed or peek in. I followed his order to stay away. On Christmas I was given the bike, red with white stripes, it looked new and to me it was new and a very wonderful gift.

Challenge: God is love and in Him there is no darkness at all. There were some very dark periods in my life with my father, after all; he was human like the rest of us. His failures are not different than yours or mine. We are born sinners and we fail because we live in the darkness of sin and even though we love, it never comes close to the holiness of God’s love for His Created humans in the world. The gospel according to the apostle John records and reveals the love of God through His Son Jesus Christ, we will spend some joyful time looking into God’s love.

Although close to chronological, the events of John’s gospel revolve around the seven miracles that Jesus did during His earthly ministry. The miracles were not done to glorify the man Jesus, but they were done to prove that God who is Jesus manifested in the flesh is the same GOD and always will be the “I AM” as recorded by Moses in Exodus 3:13-15. Remember that John was an eyewitness and a very close companion and friend of our LORD, just as was Moses. 

So we will see the evidence of Father God in Christ, Deity in a sinless human body, we will see this from the account of another EYEWITNESS, the Holy Spirit who is the third Person of the Godhead. God by His love for you and me is preparing to fulfill His full plan for us at a future date. We are able to help Him at times with the preparation and fulfillment of this gift, yet there are many things unknown or better put, kept secret until the final hour, also understood as the Day of the LORD. Like John we too are witnesses of the majesty of Jesus Christ. His sinless life of His love, His sacrifice, His resurrection and His eternal Plan.

In 3 John 1:10 – we read, “He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. Let us not keep this “good news” a secret any longer. Let your voice herald the Truth. This is the message which we have heard (and believed) from Him, (therefore) we declare that; God is Love and in Him is no darkness at all. 1 John 1:5 a personal adaptation.