May 18

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him.  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments.  1 John 5:1,2.

It would be easy to quickly read over this passage and fail to examine ourselves.  John is clearly explaining that we can know, beyond any doubt, that we are saved and have become a new creation in Christ, the Messiah.  When we encounter those who choose not to believe, can we be certain of our faith and can we explain with certainty that we know that we are saved?  Yes, we are to KNOW!

What is the evidence that assures us that we know?  We have the testimony of those that went before us, both their writings in the Scripture, as well as the shared experiences of those with whom we walked, however momentarily, on this earth.  We have the testimony of how God has been faithful, in spite of the unfaithfulness of man.  John, in this epistle, has proclaimed that we have seen, touched and heard the Son of God as he walked among us.  We know by faith in the very word of God.  We know by our own experience, and we can proclaim the fact of our salvation as we believed upon Jesus. 

Yes, we need to defend the Gospel of our salvation.  We can tell of our own changes that took place as we believed.  And no one can take this away from us.  We can explain that the commandments are fulfilled as we love God and our fellow man.  The commandments become a  ‘want to’ rather than a ‘have to’.  All because we have been changed into His likeness.  Yes, my friend, we can KNOW.

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