Anglican Daily Fountain 10 January 2022 Devotional | Monday Message
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TOPIC:Â God Has Given Us Eternal Life In Christ
TEXT: 1 John 5: 1-12
Anglican Daily Fountain 10 January 2022 Devotional | Monday Message
We are to appreciate and believe what God had done in Christ and that Christ is born of God. Anyone who loves God ought to love Christ too, who in love for humankind, relinquished His position in heaven and came down to this world to die for humanity (John 3:16). Thus, verses 2 and 3, insist that if believers love God and Christ, they should equally love one another. It is our obligation to love as Jesus taught in John 13:34,35. The love that is being emphasised here is what Greeks called ‘Agape.’ This is a sacrificial love which gives out to satisfy others, not minding the cost. Through this love, true believers are compelled to willingly obey all the commandments of God.
The believers’ victory is emphasised in verses 4 & 5. “For whosoever is born of God overcomes the world.” This means that he who is born of God is born for God to live victoriously over the world. It is abundantly clear that faith in Christ is the seed for this victory. When anyone is born again, Christ indwells and empowers him or her to become a child of God and to overcome sin, flesh and the world. In verses 6 to 9, we see that having thus acquired the power to become an overcomer, a child of God should now live by and exercise his faith in the Lord Jesus (v.7). Thus, verses 10 to 12, talk about the witness and record of God which are greater than that of man. God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son. Anyone that desires eternal life must accept Jesus. You cannot have eternal life without Jesus.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank you for granting me eternal life through your death and resurrection. Please, come into my heart; sanctify me and make me your child indeed. Amen.
Anglican Daily Fountain 10 January 2022 Daily Devotional Message. The Church of Nigeria is the Anglican church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptized membership, after the Church of England.