Sunday, December 23, 2012

If YOU Can’t Account For It You’re Saved


II Peter 3-I John 3

Do you doubt? Some live with this thorn in their flesh, they continually live in fear that they are unsaved!  I confess that I struggle. 

John’s letter is deeply concerned with this and encourages us.

“And by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.” 2:3

There are two commandments, love God with everything you are and love others as you love yourself.   I experience this as I experience all things; I am growing to love God and others.  I love more today than in the past and I hope to love more in the future because I have found fulfillment in it now and in the past.  And the one truth overarching it all is that I am fully aware that I, self, didn’t, couldn’t and wouldn’t do it!  Someone is transforming me from the inside out and I, by faith, believe that to be God in Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
by Caravaggio
see caption on December 19ths blog image


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