OUR DAILY BREAD : WE CAN KNOW

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 1


WE CAN KNOW

READ:
1 John 5:13
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I write these
things to you...
that you may
know that you
have eternal life.
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As I sat on a train headed for an important appointment, I began to wonder if I was on the right train. I had never traveled that route before and had failed to ask for help.

Finally, overcome by uncertainty and doubt, I exited at the next station__only to be told I had indeed been on the right train!

That incident reminded me how doubt can rob us of peace and confidence. At one time I had struggled with the assurance of my salvation, but God helped me deal with my doubt. Later, after sharing the story of my conversion and my assurance that I was going to heaven, someone asked, "How can you be sure you are saved and going to heaven?" I confidently but humbly pointed to the verse that God had used to help me: "I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life" (1 JHON 5:13).

God promises that through faith in His Son, Jesus, we already have eternal life: "God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son" (v.11). This assurance sharpens our faith, lifts us up when we are downhearted, and gives us courage in times of doubt. ______Lawrence Darmani

**Dear Lord, during my times of doubt help me remember
the promise of Your Word. Since I have invited Jesus into my life
and placed my faith in His payment for my sins,
You have promised me eternal life with You.
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Recalling God's promises destroys doubt.

************************Today's Bible Reading __ 1 John 5:10-15*************************
10 Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this
testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made
him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the
testimony God has given about his Son. 11 And this is the
testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his
Son. 12 Whoever has teh Son has life; whoever does not have
the Son of God does not have life.

13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the
son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God; that if
we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we
know that he hears us__whatever we ask__we know that we
have what we asked of him.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
The Bible Knowledge Commentary says of
John's first epistle: "The letter contains no hint about the identity
or location of the readers [to whom the letter was sent] beyond
the fact that they are Christians. Since early church tradition
associates John with the Roman province of Asia (in western
Turkey), it has often been thought that the readers lived there....
[They ] had been confronted with false teachers, whom John
called antichrists (1 JOHN 2:18-26). The exact character of these false
teachers has been much discussed. Many have thought they
were Gnostics who held to a strict dualism in which spiritual and
material things were sharply distinguished." _______Bill Crowder