August 23, 2021: SOAP #4281:  Jeremiah 31-32; 1John 4

SCRIPTURE:  1John (NIV) 4:4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world….
12 No-one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is made complete in us. 13 We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.

OBSERVATION: God is in me!  I am in God!  God lives in me, and I live in God! 

APPLICATION:  That truth means that God is as close to me as my breath.  If I ever complain that I am all alone, I am ignoring truth! 

The same God who lives in me delivered the Israelites from Egypt and fed them in the wilderness for forty years!  He is the same God who opened blind eyes and fed 5000 people with a small boy’s lunch!  He is the same one who proved His love for me by dying on the cross.  He is the same one who rose from a borrowed grave! 

PRAYER: Lord, I am blessed to know that you are with me!  It is my privilege to be with you.  I want my presence to be as pleasing to you as your presence is to me.  Amen

Pastor Leon
Making friends for time and eternity!