The Kind of Light That Heals
“This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.” 1 John 1:5 (NIV) Light feels like a threat when you are hiding something. Most of…
Category Devotionals
His Faithfulness Doesn’t Depend on Yours
“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” 1 John 1:8 (NIV) What happens when your faith feels weaker than it should? Some days confidence comes easy, and other days it…
You Don’t Have to Hide to Be Loved
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 (NIV) Someone reading this has a secret they carry alone. You have rehearsed how you…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…