SPIRITUAL DIARY
Date: 09-25-04
My Worship Time Focus: Abiding in love
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: 1John 3:23-24
Message of the verse: 23 ¶ This is His commandment, that we believe
in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded
us. 24 The one who keeps His
commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in
us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
(NAS95) 23 ¶ And this is His commandment: that we should
believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us
commandment. 24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in
Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit
whom He has given us.
John give a
commandment, which is from the Lord, and that is in fact a wittiness to all who
read this, that people are to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and those who
have done this will love one another.
Believers are to have a love for other believers, and also a love for
the lost that the Lord brings them in contact with so they can share Christ’s
love with them.
John goes
on in the next verse to talk about abiding and this is something that all true
believers are to do, and that is to abide in Christ. In John’s gospel he wrote about abiding in
Christ in chapter 15, where he quotes Jesus’ Words as He taught what it is to
abide in Him. Jesus used the illustration of the vine and the
branch in order to teach about abiding.
The branch cannot produce any fruit unless it is attached to the vine in
a healthy way, and in the same way a believer cannot produce any fruit for the
Lord is he does not stay in contact with the true Vine. Abiding is something that a believer must do,
and as he does it then He will have the power to live out the Christian life
with power and love that can only come when he is abiding in Christ through His
Holy Spirit.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: The teaching on abiding in Christ through His
Abiding Spirit is something that is of great importance to me if I want to have
a powerful experience with my Lord and be able to love others as He loves
others and also to be able to understand what His will is for me, and also to
have the insight to pray about what He wants me to pray about.
The Word of God was convicting to my heart, and also was
very instructive for me as I read and studied it this morning.
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