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SAA Notes
We are called to two things – to discontinue in sin and to love our brother Christian. 1 Corinthians 13, Zechariah 7:9,10 and 8:16,17, Leviticus 19:18 and much else of the case law in Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy will tell you what loving your brother means in practice.
SJA Notes
* Holy God, You are all we need in this life. As You write Your word upon our hearts, may our love for You grow ever onward.
“Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.”
This is a deep and meaty passage, full of hard truths.
John clearly points us again and again to the true/false absolute nature of sin and righteousness, of light and darkness, of God and of the devil.
John exhorts us in a very practical exhortation.
“Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.”
How do we love one another?
We _do_.
Our doing, actions, arise out of our hearts.
Following Jesus is not a matter of the surface, of the outward.
God’s people are on a narrow road, a path of walking and action, of decision-making through life, seeking God’s wisdom at each step.
We need to _do_.
Let us be encouraged to love in action out of the truth of the Spirit that lives within us, our hearts remade.
* Father God,
Thank You for Your love for us, that shows us how to love.
Thank You for Jesus, who showed us on earth what it meant to love, to obey.
Please help us to love in action and in truth today.
Amen.