I John 2:29 “If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.” Most cases of right and wrong are pretty simple. Oh, we may make them more difficult with our excuses and our justifications, but deep down, we know right from wrong. And […]

I John 2:28 “And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.” I have recently started jogging. I’m still building up my endurance, and sometimes, when I feel tired and out of breath, I’m tempted to stop before I reach my […]

I John 2:24-25 “See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he promised us – even eternal life.” I have been a Christian for a long time. Decades. And during that time, I […]

I John 2:22-23 “Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the anti-christ – he denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.” John’s use of the word anti-christ […]

I John 2:21 “I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.” I’ve always heard you should crack an egg in a bowl by itself before adding it to the others. This way, if it’s bad, the […]

I John 2:20 “But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.” Have you ever served on a jury? I have, and it wasn’t an easy task. Both the defendant and the plaintiff had their versions of the truth, and it was the jury’s job to figure out […]

I John 2:18-19 “Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went away from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to […]

I John 2:17 “The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.” In my bathroom are dozens of tubes and pots and containers of lotions, cleansers and cosmetics, each one promising to make me look younger and more beautiful. Many of them promise to reverse time, […]

I John 2:16 “For everything in the world – the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does – comes not from the Father but from the world.” Okay, John gets a little personal here, don’t you think? He is no longer just referring to […]