When one decides to follow Jesus, it is not simply an acknowledgment that He is God, it is an acknowledgment that we cannot be saved without God’s grace. In that vein, John emphasizes that when one submits to His lordship, that person’s life and actions change. The spirit enters and begins to transform us into Christ’s spiritual image. It is not a takeover, where one loses their ability to choose, and count on it, it is not like one becomes perfect immediately. Instead, it is a change in attitude and priority, a world where God and others take priority over self.
In our personal lives, we all have areas that require a daily choice to acknowledge who is the boss. Those areas can cover a wide range of sin and selfishness. We, as God’s chosen, seek to live lives that honor God and relinquish control of our walk to the Lord. John reminds us that it is a choice we make several times a day, but, in the end, if Jesus is in our lives, those lives should look different. Whatever the areas of our lives that we continue to try to control, we need to simply ask the Lord to give us the faith to release them to Him. when we do, we will find that God will only improve those areas. He will take the stress and the manipulation away, and leave a life of peace and purpose!
God Bless You
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 6 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
The New Commandment
7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.
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