Watch Where Envy Leads You
“Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.” 1 John 3:12 (NIV) A quiet comparison can…
Rodney Garcia
Hope Grows Into Holiness
“All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.” 1 John 3:3 (NIV) Real hope was never meant to make you lazy. John’s church had recently been shaken by teachers who convinced some to leave.…
You Belong Before You Perform
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” 1 John 3:1a (NIV) Some of us still audition for love we already have. We check…
You Were Never Behind
“As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.” 1 John 2:24 (NIV) You feel like everyone else is further…
The Confession You Cannot Soften
“Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist, denying the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the…
What Felt Like Missing Out Was Actually Mercy
“They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.” 1 John 2:19…
What You Chase Reveals What You Trust
“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the…
The Truth You Cannot Personalize
“Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning.” 1 John 2:7 (NIV) You keep waiting for God to say something new. Maybe you scroll for a fresh…
Healing Starts With Telling the Truth
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7 (NIV) Many of us think confession…
Someone Is Already Speaking Up for You
“My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.” 1 John 2:1 (NIV) You do not have to defend…