abide

1 john
for 40 days
takes discipline.
but i'm gleaning truth of immeasurable value.
abide
abide
abide.
22 times john uses this word [esv]
to speak direction,
to- no doubt- bear testimony to the life that He has lived
and to share the key to joy
and the key to his assurance of salvation.
because to abide in Him is the only way to be sure.
john says, "and now little children, abide in Him so that when He appears we may have confidence and not shrink from Him in shame at His coming..."
and "...whoever abides in love abides in God and God abides in Him. by this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because He is so also as we are in this world."
and finally john states, "i write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life."
john knew that a person lives one of two ways-
abiding in death
or abiding in life

and we
have passed out of death
into life
because we love.

abide. in. Him.