The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in 1 John 3:9,
“No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.”
Here is a fascinating statement. Our being born of God results in God’s seed remaining in us! It makes me think of when someone speaks of having a certain heritage so they act in a particular way: “So and so has a temper, it must be his Irish blood”, etc. While we live in a day where it is not fashionable to speak in such terms or to generalize in this way about a group of people, it illustrates the point. Those who have been born of God have his seed in them and so there is something different about them. John’s point is that living a sinful lifestyle is a contradiction to both being born of God and God’s resulting presence from that birth that remains within us.
I guess, giving it some thought, how could anyone go through the transformation that takes place during a spiritual rebirth and not reflect that rebirth? This reminds me of a passage Paul wrote, Romans 8:9, “You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.”
God’s presence in our lives represented by the Holy Spirit insures we will live changed lives. This is so much so that John uses this reality to help us overcome struggles we may have with our consciences or when we possibly might entertain certain doubts. In 1 John 5:13 he says, “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.”
I simply find it remarkable that those of us who have embraced Jesus Christ in faith carry within ourselves “God’s seed”. It makes a new creation of us and results in our lives being changed!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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