Introduction
- Who of you feels physically and/or mentally tired (or exhausted) today? What is the cause of that?
- Who of you is anxious or in doubt about anything?
Our Text for Today
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
1 John 3:18-20
- What is your immediate reaction to the verses?
- What situations come to your mind?
2 Axioms of John: “Love” and “God is always greater”
Love
- Loving like Jesus
- What situation did you have in the last 7 days, where you loved with truth and action rather than with word or speech?
God is always greater
- Where do you need to convince yourself that God is always greater?
- God‘s rhetoric question (Jer 32:27)
- God‘s statement (Isa 45:5-7)
- Our limited understanding (Job 26:14, Job 37:5)
Final thoughts
- What challenging situation do you have coming up?
- How can the 2 axioms above help you?