A love letter to those who rebelled against Him

2 John 9

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Family, the Bible is our instructions from God on how to live this life. It is our love letter from Him. It is the greatest book ever written. The most accurate document ever written. It is the book with the highest standards. It is a gift from a holy God who did not have to reveal Himself to us. It is a gift from God after we spat in His face and displayed our hatred to Him via sinning. It is a gift after we ran with our sin and loved it more than our Maker. It is a gift that tells us that we have a chance of forgiveness IF we turn to Him and follow Him as His disciple. But yet, we treat this great book with such little reverence. We live life ignoring it so often. We turn to Facebook instead of getting our face in His Book. This verse in 2 John says it all though: “Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.” If we are not reading His teachings, how can we know Him? Oswald Chambers said, “That is the way God speaks to us, not by visions and dreams, but by words.” If we never read His word, how can we be upset when things aren’t going well or we feel disconnected from Him? Family, what Hebrews 4:12 says, “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” This book is one of God’s channels of communication to us, and we access it so scarcely many times. How do we know God if we don’t access one of His most used channels of communication with us? He has so much to show us in His word, but we have to dive into it. As this passage talks about, without knowing His word, how can we say that we know Him? We need to be in this book as much as possible, at the very least every day. My question is this, do we long for and thirst for the word of God like we starve for food or long for drink? Do we need it more than anything, short of God Himself? May we not make His word our god by going too far the other way, but family, may we dig deeper and deeper into His word, seeking Him for He promises us that when we seek Him, we shall find Him (Luke 11:9). May we be people that know our God and know His word so that we may be workers equipped in and out of season (2 Tim 2:15). Family, this is our sword and we are going into war, may we know how to use it on the battlefield because we are so familiar with it because we have used it so much.

“A Bible that is falling apart, is usually the sign of a life that isn’t.”

- Vance Havner

Blessings