Christmas Inheritance: Today’s Quiet Time for Christians
Christmas Inheritance: Today’s Quiet Time for Christians
Today’s QT – Dec 23, 2022 (FRI)
Christmas Inheritance
1 John 3:1-10
📙 Scripture (NIV)
¹ See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
² Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
³ All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
⁴ Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
⁵ But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.
⁶ No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
⁷ Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
⁸ The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.
⁹ No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.
¹⁰ This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
📝 Reflection
Our Primary Identity (3:1–6)
It is easy for us to take for granted our identity as children of God, so John emphatically restates: “And that is what we are!” Because we are truly born again, we can live holy lives in the present, guided by the future hope of seeing Jesus. This hope helps keep us pure as we look forward to becoming what God promises we will become. We will possess glorified bodies, and we will be conformed to the image of our Savior. Therefore, it would be utter foolishness to continue to sin and deny our true identity. Indeed, this passage reminds us of the essential message of Christmas: Jesus stooped down in grace to become a child so that we might become children of the Lord Most High.
What are the blessings of being a child of God? How does the hope of heaven encourage you to live a holy life?
The Devil, Destroyed (3:7–10)
The devil seeks to steal, kill, and destroy. He tempts people to sin and then accuses them when they fall. But when Jesus was born and placed in that manger in Bethlehem, He initiated a mission to utterly destroy the works of the devil. Through Christ’s life, death, and resurrection, we can claim victory in our walk with God, reject the devil’s lies, and render him powerless. When we sin, let us never forget what Christ has won for us. Because Jesus has defeated the devil, we have the power, through God’s Spirit, to emulate our Father, just like any loving child would do. And since our Father is love, we imitate Him well when we love one another.
What lies do you find yourself constantly believing? How does God’s Word address those lies?
🙏 Prayer
Dear Father, thank you for sending Jesus to destroy the devil’s work so that I might become Your child. Help me to imitate His life by pursuing holiness and loving my brothers and sisters in Christ. In His name, amen.
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