Welcome to Hank’s Place for 2025 —
1 John 2:24 gives us believers wonderful guidance for the new year: “let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.” What’s John saying?
We began our journey at the feet of Jesus; so let us stay there says John — and let nothing move us. When Jesus saved us we ‘naturally’ understood we were saved by grace, but then for most of us we heard messages that urged us to pray more, read more, give more, work more. Perform. Produce for Jesus. Receiving those messages will result in falling from grace, Galatians 5:4. Still saved, but the joy of our salvation is nowhere to be found. Still got that joy?
Not only that, being distracted from Jesus can result in being tossed and turned by every wind of teaching. Ephesians 4:14. So John tells us to stick with what we heard at the beginning, the message of God’s grace. And love.
God IS love. John, the disciple Jesus loved, especially declares it. When I stepped out of that church pew January 18, 1976 to give my life to Jesus and declare Him my Savior, I was immediately, instantly, overwhelmed by my Heavenly Father’s love. He was real! And He was LOVE. And He immersed me in a tidal wave of love, love never ending.
Let’s stay at the feet of Jesus where we first began. OK? Where grace and love reside. Do this and our hearts will be at rest and our minds will be at peace.
What happens to us if we should stray? Just look at the next verse, “This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.” We still have eternal life. We cannot fall out or lose our salvation. It’s a promise of God. Remember John 3:16 “Whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”
Are you straying already in the new year? Turn and run, dear friend! Run back to Jesus! Run into the arms of your Heavenly Father. They will never shut you out or stop loving you. Confess your fears, anxieties, struggles, false steps, selfishness, whatever, and sit again at Jesus’ feet.
Their plans for you are wonderful — beyond what you could ask or even think!
Plans to will cause you — to COME ALIVE!
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