1 John 5:1 “Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.”
Dear God,
John the Apostle, speaks to me again, and many other Bible readers through Your inspiration. It is because it is so needed and not part of our essential character, that we (I) need to be often taught, that it is by loving You, that I not only learn what true love is, but also receive and give this gift of love to others. I really long to be always filled with Your love and to act upon this love, as a chain reaction toward others; and to think it all commenced in heaven, from my God; that is awesome!
1 John 5: 3”For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.” The commandments are based on Your character of love, and therefore for all who love You truly, we will not love sin or intentionally keep doing things that we know are against what You have requested in the commandments. The ‘world’ that Satan influences to be rebellious toward God and His commandments, leading us to sin intentionally, has been overcome by Jesus Christ, and by faith in Jesus, we all can have victory over the temptations and intentional sins presented alluringly to us by Satan and his angels.
I am sure that Jesus is my Saviour, and the divine Son of God, because He was baptized for us and shed His blood for us, for the remission of all sin. Confirmed by the witness to these two events, by the Holy Spirit, who does not lie, because He is part of the Godhead, and God cannot lie; as well as this witness of the Holy Spirit, there was the witness from heaven by You, God the Father at both these events, as well as on earth, Jesus Christ stated that He was Jesus our Saviour; they were all three speaking with one voice.
Perhaps the biggest evidence that Jesus Christ is our Saviour, and the Son of God, is the change that happens within me (and others) when I am born again through Jesus Christ, then I (each) are a new person, with a new character, with new attitudes, actions, likes and dislikes; with no interest in deliberately sinning and pleasing ourselves. Now I wish to be filled with God’s love, seeking to share this love with others, in an attitude of care and selflessness.
As You know my heart and desires toward You, please keep me faithful to You love and care for all people, for those I know and those I know about; even in the remotest part earth.
Amen