A WORD IN PASSING - October 2024
'If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.' 1 John 1:7
John Newton once confessed,
'I am not what I ought to be, but I am not what I once was. And it is by the grace of God that I am what I am.'
The same could knowingly be said by all those to whom John was writing and by all of us who seek to follow the
Lord Jesus - wherever we may be in our journey of faith.
'I am not what I ought to be, but I am not what I once was. And it is by the grace of God that I am what I am.'
The Christian way is not an easy way. But the more intentional we are the more natural it will become as we
allow God's Spirit to guide us, and as we seek to 'keep in step' with Him (Gal 5:25). For it is by keeping in step with
the Spirit of Jesus as we 'walk as Jesus did 1 John 2:6 that we are led in our Christian living and mature in our
Christian faith.
And all of this would be impossible, if it were not for the fact that when we ask Jesus into out life, when we
accept Him as our Saviour and Lord, God invests His very self in us, '... a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance
until the redemption of those who are God's possession - to the praise of his glory.' Amen!!
Graham Pulham
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