“But if we walk in
the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the
blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.”
I John 1:7
Warning!
Warning!
This verse starts
with a condition: “…if we walk in the
light, as He is in the light…”
Are you discerning as
you read the Word?
It is easy to read
past the parts requiring something of us to get right to the promise.
But meditating,
memorizing or believing the promise does little if we don’t also obey.
Sure, it’s our flesh
that wants something for nothing – the winning lottery ticket, the free lunch,
the head of the line.
But often Gods’ promises
are ours only after obediently walking in the conditions He has established.
The promise of
eternal life is ours after we accept
the free gift of His Son.
You argue that it is
a free gift.
Who wouldn’t receive it?
Yes it is, but we all
know those who push that free gift away only to declare their belief that they
will ‘get into heaven’ because they have lived a ‘decent’ life.
We are choosing our
way over Gods’.
We are all for the
promise, but we ignore the gift of His Son that God offers in order to see that
promise fulfilled.
We miss the gift held
for us through our obedience.
We miss the gift of
Gods’ sanctifying work, His maturing and refining work in each of us that
comes, not at the receipt of the promise, but in the obedient journey to it.
The question then is
not “Are you ready for the promise?”
It is: “Are you ready
for the journey to the promise?”
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