God’s Truth for Trying Times - 10/17/21

We need God’s truth in trying times. Read the Scripture passage, think about what it is saying, then pray; by yourself or with your household. Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly (Col. 3:16).

READ: 1 John 4:4-6

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error. [1 John 4:4-6 ESV] 

CONSIDER: Jesus living in us, our hope of glory, is assurance that we will be with him forever. God perseveres the believer. God causes us to overcome the world because the world cannot hold us in its grasp. And we know that those who truly know the Lord are in agreement with fellow believers according to what the word of God says.

THINK: What does this declare about God? What are God’s people being called to do? What assurance is given? How does the Word of God transform our hearts and lives and relationships?