Good day dear friends.
Our text for today comes from 1 John 5: 9 If we take human testimony at face value, how much more should we be reassured when God gives testimony as he does here, testifying concerning his Son. 10 Whoever believes in the Son of God inwardly confirms God's testimony. Whoever refuses to believe in effect calls God a liar, refusing to believe God's own testimony regarding his Son. 11 This is the testimony in essence: God gave us eternal life; the life is in his Son. 12 So, whoever has the Son, has life; whoever rejects the Son, rejects life. 13 My purpose in writing is simply this: that you who believe in God's Son will know beyond the shadow of a doubt that you have eternal life, the reality and not the illusion. (The Message)
There was a reason that God led Fanny Crosby to write, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; O what a foretaste of Glory divine..." The story goes that Ms. Crosby went to visit some friends who were having an organ installed in their home and the hostess asked Fanny to listen to a melody that had come to her and she played it on the piano. She asked Fanny what she thought the tune said, and Fanny replied, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine." Many are the Christians who say, "I'm not sure that I'll go to Heaven if I die;" and that's a normal human thought, but the divine, as shared in the above passage, says if we believe in Christ Jesus, we have life and not just life now, but life eternal. The writer of 1 John says that this is God's own testimony, something we should take over human testimony.
Take time to read again the passage and if you have time to hear the hymn. There's a message for the Church in both. And you and I are the church. Live a life that shares life and one day will share eternal life.
PRAYER: Loving God, we praise You for Your testimony that in Your Son, Jesus Christ, we have life and not just for today here on the earth, but life without end in Your presence. Help us so to live so that others may come to life. In Christ Jesus we pray, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
Eradio Valverde
