Changed by His Love
1 John 2:24: Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
It is important that you stay with the truth of God’s Word. The Word (or message) Christians have “heard from the beginning” is all you need to keep you true to the faith. The Christian life continues just as it began: through faith in the Bible’s message.
A religious leader who comes along with “something new,” something that contradicts what Christians have “heard from the beginning,” is not to be trusted. “Try the spirits, whether they are of God” (1 John 4:1). Let the Word abide in you (1 John 2:24), and abide in Christ (1 John 2:28); otherwise you will be led astray by the spirit of antichrist. No matter what false teachers may promise, you have the sure promise of eternal life (1 John 2:25). You need nothing more! 1
Loving Him
Can the answers to your most pressing problems, concerns, and worries actually be satisfyingly answered by simply understanding what abiding means and then spending the rest of your life dedicated to the call of being an abiding Christian?
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. John 15:7
Loving Others
To abide means that you will never leave your place on His vine.
Make Me Like You
Lord, thank You for allowing me to be a branch who has found my identity in the Vine.
1. Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 2, p. 500). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
