Finding Peace in Prayer: A Daily Devotion

SATURDAY, 15 JUNE 2024

TEXT: 1 John 2:7-17

7. My dear friends, I am not writing a new command to you. It is the same command you have had since the beginning. This command is the teaching you have already heard.

8. But what I write is also a new command. It is a true one; you can see its truth in Jesus and in yourselves. The darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

9. Someone might say, “I am in the light,” but if they hate any of their brothers or sisters in God’s family, they are still in the darkness.

10. Those who love their brothers and sisters live in the light, and there is nothing in them that will make them do wrong.

11. But whoever hates their brother or sister is in darkness. They don’t know where they are going, because the darkness has made them blind.

12. I write to you, dear children, because your sins are forgiven through Christ.

13. I write to you, fathers, because you know the one who existed from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you have defeated the Evil One.

14. I write to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know the one who existed from the beginning. I write to you, young people, because you are strong. The word of God lives in you, and you have defeated the Evil One.

15. Don’t love this evil world or the things in it. If you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.

16. This is all there is in the world: wanting to please our sinful selves, wanting the sinful things we see, and being too proud of what we have. But none of these comes from the Father. They comes from world.

17. The world is passing away, and all the things that people want in the world are passing away. But whoever does what God wants will live forever.

(Easy-to-Read Version Holy Bible)

TOPIC: LIVING IN THE LIGHT

Physical light is good for so many things, including life and survival. It is also a symbol of purity and righteousness. We are told in the text that God is the light and that whoever has fellowship with Him will live in this light.

This fellowship refers to the relationship all believers in Christ have with God through faith in Jesus Christ. So, if we are in God by faith in Jesus Christ, we are living in the light and the darkness has no power over our lives.

The light is the new life we receive from the moment we confess Jesus as Saviour while the darkness refers to living in sin and rebellion against God.

Those who live in this light will overcome the evil one and will not submit to loving this world because the love of God the Father is in them. These words should encourage you to live in the light. That is, to live by faith in the Son of God who loves us and gave Himself up for our salvation.

QUESTION: Can you honestly say that you are living in the light?

PRAYER: Thank You, dear Lord, for the privilege of knowing You and the grace to live in the light. Help me to not deviate into the dark, in Jesus name. Amen.