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1 John 5:20
Thoughts on Today’s Verse…
Jesus came to reveal God to us. He has given us the most precise picture of what God is like and how God would interact with us. Because of Jesus, we can know God, the only one who is truly genuine. Because we are in Christ, we can share a special bond with the Father and find a new quality of life in him. This is lasting life that won’t end when our bodies die. This is eternal life that begins now (John 5:24), as we walk with him each day, and extends forever (John 3:16-17, 10:25-26). For the eternal and transcendent God to make himself known to us is grace. For him to make himself known to us in Jesus is salvation!
My Prayer…
Holy and awesome Father, I know that I will enjoy your presence forever because my life is joined to you through Jesus. I love you for all you have done for me and the terrible price you paid to redeem me from my sins. I love you for creating me and having a plan for my life when no one else knew I was even conceived. Most of all, I love you for being God and choosing to be the kind of Father who wants his children to know and love him. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Bible References
20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
24 For John was not yet cast into prison.
25 Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.
26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
1 John 5:20
We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true. And we are in Him who is true – even in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
John is closing the epistle of 1 John the way he opened it, declaring that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh (the Incarnation). When Christ came to this earth He revealed God the Father to us, for we only need to look at Him to understand who the true God is. There are many false gods, only one true God, God the Father, and He can only be known through the Lord Jesus Christ.
The world we live in would have you believe that there are many ways to God, but the Word of God says that there is only ONE way to God and that is through His only Son, Jesus Christ. In John 14:6 Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
When we trust in Christ and His bloodshed for the forgiveness of our sins, we are “in” Christ. God looks at us as His children bought and paid for by His Son. We are in Christ and He is true and eternal. How cool is that?! What a glorious position we are in before God because of Christ and His love for us. No more do we have to live in fear of God for we are His dearly loved children and He loves us with a Father’s love and will do so for eternity, all because of the work of Christ on the cross. Have you thanked Him today, have You praised Him today? How can we not just bubble over with thanksgiving and praise to the One who loves us as no other ever has or will?
My precious Lord Jesus, thank You for loving me and for coming to this earth to lay down Your life for mine. Thank You for revealing God the Father to me and for putting me in right relationship with Him. I give You all honor, praise, and glory this day my Redeemer, I love You so, Amen!