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Words of Life
No 1, 2022, North Queensland
3 John 1:1
This greeting to a loved Christian brother at the beginning of John’s third epistle, highlights the two treasures required for community fellowship, LOVE and TRUTH.
The Apostle John continues in the remainder of the letter to identify what is seen when those two precious stones are missing or overwritten by natural desires.
Love and truth are indeed like precious jewels in our lives, and as time moves on, they seem to be getting rarer and rarer in our western society. We have the God given ability, as Gaius did, to make sure those treasures are valued and visible within our daily interactions.
Recently I witnessed a brother who works with precious gems showing and describing the process of taking raw stones and highlighting their natural beauty in jewellery. Love and truth also require cutting, polishing, and shining within our lives so they can be appreciated by others. They must first be sought out amongst all of the distractions of modern life.
Jesus Christ was the epitome of love and truth in His life upon this earth. Those traits which were so precious in Him, were also visible to those around Him in His words and actions and we are still beneficiaries of their effects today.
Love was required for a perfect God to lay down His life for imperfect mankind. The result being His unmerited favour as Saving Grace for all.
John 1:14, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”
As the spiritual body of Christ on earth, let us endeavour to shine forth those treasures of love and truth to those around us.