2Jn 1:1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
2Jn 1:2 For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
2Jn 1:3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
2Jn 1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
2Jn 1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2Jn 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
For the TRUTH'S sake.
The TRUTH that will be with us FOREVER.
The TRUTH that dwells IN US.
Loving in TRUTH.
Knowing in TRUTH.
Walking in TRUTH.
All received in commandment from the FATHER.
NO new commandment.
A commandment given from the BEGINNING.
THAT WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
LOVE is- walking after HIS commandments.
Do you know what the truth is?
So many say they don't, and even more say it doesn't matter, and anyway truth is subjective to the person. There are a whole slew of reasons people use to get around knowing the truth and barring that, they use even more reasons to keep from living the truth when they do know it.
In these few verses we've just read we read that word TRUTH over and over, that should tell us something. The TRUTH is very important.
Here is why--
Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Joh 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Jesus Christ our LORD and SAVIOR is THE TRUTH.
THE TRUTH will make us free.
The truth. The ONE Savior Jesus Christ. The truth is found in HIM, and HE gives us so much of Himself and we can read it in His word.
The truth.
That we love one another, that we keep the commandments given at the beginning.
The commands of LOVE.
Imagine for a moment- you are placed in a world of others very similar to yourself and you want your life to be a good life filled with love, caring, and kindness, as well as respect. Yet the world you are in is a hostile world where not everyone wants this. It's SO incredibly easy to fall in step with the hostility, to give hostile acts in return for receiving them. And because this hostile world is our temporary dwelling place we have seek guidance from our Creator in order to manage to live upright in HIM, THROUGH HIM.
In a world before the hostility our Creator created a very special thing for all of us, a period of time to rest in Him, with Him in time made holy, time blessed. You might think that we wouldn't need such a period of time in a perfect world, but the perfect world exists ONLY because of our CREATOR and this special time period was given so we would never ever imagine otherwise.
Then, when the hostility came that special time was even more important for all of us, because if we enter that special time we are renewed and we step out of the hostile world into the world of our Creator, allowed to live in HIM during the special period of time HE created FOR US.
We all don't have to imagine what it means to recharge something, we live in a world with many gadgets that need recharging all the time. What would happen if you STOPPED recharging those gadgets? Could you use them? Would they be worth anything? Would the be valuable for anything at all? Most of those rechargeable items are worthless, they become garbage when they can no longer be recharged.
It's the same with us, it really, really is. It we are not recharged by our Lord and Savior during that special time period HE created, then we are in essence saying to our God, our Creator that we don't need to be recharged, we do not need HIM in order to live in HIS truth. We need HIM more than ever as the world grows more and more hostile all around us.
The truth. There is truth and we must walk in the truth always - by HIS grace!
The truth and all His truth, refusing to accept any deceptive beliefs no matter how enticing they are, no matter how pleasing they are to our way of life, to our senses. We must live the truth by faith in our SAVIOR knowing that only by living His truth are we going to be found in HIM and HE in us.
Please Lord help us to understand all the truth in YOU!
All by Your grace, Your mercy, Your forgiveness, Your LOVE.
2Jn 1:2 For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
2Jn 1:3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
2Jn 1:4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
2Jn 1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2Jn 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
For the TRUTH'S sake.
The TRUTH that will be with us FOREVER.
The TRUTH that dwells IN US.
Loving in TRUTH.
Knowing in TRUTH.
Walking in TRUTH.
All received in commandment from the FATHER.
NO new commandment.
A commandment given from the BEGINNING.
THAT WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
LOVE is- walking after HIS commandments.
Do you know what the truth is?
So many say they don't, and even more say it doesn't matter, and anyway truth is subjective to the person. There are a whole slew of reasons people use to get around knowing the truth and barring that, they use even more reasons to keep from living the truth when they do know it.
In these few verses we've just read we read that word TRUTH over and over, that should tell us something. The TRUTH is very important.
Here is why--
Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Joh 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Jesus Christ our LORD and SAVIOR is THE TRUTH.
THE TRUTH will make us free.
The truth. The ONE Savior Jesus Christ. The truth is found in HIM, and HE gives us so much of Himself and we can read it in His word.
The truth.
That we love one another, that we keep the commandments given at the beginning.
The commands of LOVE.
Imagine for a moment- you are placed in a world of others very similar to yourself and you want your life to be a good life filled with love, caring, and kindness, as well as respect. Yet the world you are in is a hostile world where not everyone wants this. It's SO incredibly easy to fall in step with the hostility, to give hostile acts in return for receiving them. And because this hostile world is our temporary dwelling place we have seek guidance from our Creator in order to manage to live upright in HIM, THROUGH HIM.
In a world before the hostility our Creator created a very special thing for all of us, a period of time to rest in Him, with Him in time made holy, time blessed. You might think that we wouldn't need such a period of time in a perfect world, but the perfect world exists ONLY because of our CREATOR and this special time period was given so we would never ever imagine otherwise.
Then, when the hostility came that special time was even more important for all of us, because if we enter that special time we are renewed and we step out of the hostile world into the world of our Creator, allowed to live in HIM during the special period of time HE created FOR US.
We all don't have to imagine what it means to recharge something, we live in a world with many gadgets that need recharging all the time. What would happen if you STOPPED recharging those gadgets? Could you use them? Would they be worth anything? Would the be valuable for anything at all? Most of those rechargeable items are worthless, they become garbage when they can no longer be recharged.
It's the same with us, it really, really is. It we are not recharged by our Lord and Savior during that special time period HE created, then we are in essence saying to our God, our Creator that we don't need to be recharged, we do not need HIM in order to live in HIS truth. We need HIM more than ever as the world grows more and more hostile all around us.
The truth. There is truth and we must walk in the truth always - by HIS grace!
The truth and all His truth, refusing to accept any deceptive beliefs no matter how enticing they are, no matter how pleasing they are to our way of life, to our senses. We must live the truth by faith in our SAVIOR knowing that only by living His truth are we going to be found in HIM and HE in us.
Please Lord help us to understand all the truth in YOU!
All by Your grace, Your mercy, Your forgiveness, Your LOVE.
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