Seize the Moment – Day 343
Chosen Children!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, February 23.
I want to emphasize to you the heart of John’s short letter, called 2 John, from one congregation to another, from one part of the family to another.
Listen to John at the beginning of the letter in verses 4-6,
I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment to do from the Father. Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments.
Now listen to how he finishes the letter in verses 12-13, “Though I have many things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, so that your joy may be made full. The children of your chosen sister greet you.”
John’s letter is a masterpiece that teaches us how we should relate to one another as members of the one church of Jesus Christ—we should see one another as fellow children of God.
His letter also emphasizes the heartbeat of Christianity—the love of God which is the commandment of Jesus Christ which we are to walk in and in doing so, find joy in God and one another. What a beautiful life God has chosen us for!
Seize the moment and walk in love today so that your joy may be made full.
Let’s recite this week’s memory verse from Genesis 9:12-13 (ESV), “God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.’”
God Bless you!