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February 16
Monday


THE ANSWERS

READ:
1 John 3:1-9
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Beloved, now we are
children of God.
__1 John 3:1-9
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The story is told that the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-18600) was sauntering through Berlin's famous Tiegarden one day, mentally probing the questions of origin and destiny that had been constantly perplexing him: Who am I? Where am I going?

A park-keeper, closely observing the shabbily dressed philosopher as he walked slowly with head bowed, suspected that Schopenhauer was a tramp. So he walked up to the philosopher and demanded, "Who are you? Where are you going?" With a pained expression, Schopenhauer replied, "I don't know. I wish somebody could tell me."

Are you ever perplexed by those same questions? Who am I? Where am I going? What a comfort it is to have God's authoritative answers in the Bible. Who are we? In I John 3, John calls his readers "Children of God" (v.2). We become His children by receiving Jesus as our Savior from sin (John 112). And where are we going? John 14:1-6 tells us that one day he will receive us into a home He is preparing in heaven.

Our Maker is not only the Author of science and history, but He writes the story of every member of Adam's family --yours and mine. We can trust His answers. __Vernon Grounds
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```````````````````Open my ears, that I may hear````````````````
``````````````````Voices of truth Thou sendest clear;``````````````
````````````````And while the wave-notes fall on my ear,```````````
````````````````Everything false will disappear. __scott````````````
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When you know Jesus, you know who you are
and where you're going.

***************Today's Bible Reading __ 1 John 3:1-9**************

1 Behold what manner of
love the Father has
bestowed on us, that we
should be called children of
God! Therefore the world
does not know us, because
it did not know Him.

2 Beloved, now we are
children of God; and it has
not yet been revealed what
we shall be, but we know
that when He is revealed,
we shall be like Him, for
we shall see Him as He is.

3 And everyone who has
this hope in Him purifies
himself, just as He is pure.

4 Whoever commits sin
also commits lawlessness,
and sin is lawlessness.

5 And you know that He
was manifested to take
away our sins, and in Him
there is no sin. 6 Whoever
abides in Him does not sin.
Whoever sins has neither
seen Him nor known Him.

7 Little children, let no one
deceive you. He who
practices righteousness is
righteous, just as He is
righteous. 8 He who sins is
of the devil, for the devil
has sinned from the
beginning. For this purpose
the Son of God was
minifested, that He might
destroy the works of the
devil. 9 Whoever has been
born of God does not sin,
for His seed remains in
him; and he cannot sin,
because he has been born
of God.

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Believers today may look the same as everyone else. But in the
future we will be transformed into a glorified state like Christ.
"Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been
revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed,
we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is" )1 John 3:2).
__Dennis Fisher