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Wednesday... This is the day to reinforce some very important truths.


2 John 1:3 (NLT), "Grace, mercy, and peace, which come from God the Father and from Jesus Christ - the Son of the Father - will continue to be with us who live in truth and love."

Wednesday... This is the day to reinforce some very important truths.

Tomorrow a New Year starts and today the old one ends and it is so good to reinforce some important realities.


John in his second letter in 1:3 (NLT) says, "Grace, mercy, and peace, which come from God the Father and from Jesus Christ - the Son of the Father - will continue to be with us who live in truth and love." And that reality needs to be reinforced into our life. It really does.

We really, really do need grace, mercy and peace in our lives. We really do. Did you have grace, mercy and peace in your life this past year? Did you live in truth and love? Did you know that they come from God the Father and Jesus Christ who is the Son of the Father? It is so very important to reinforce this truth as we face 2026. We really do need grace, mercy and peace in our families and in the world in which we live, don't we? So it is important for us to continue to live in truth and love.

Now there is another reality in this chapter that we need to know. Verse 9a (MSG) says, "Anyone who gets so progressive in his thinking that he walks out on the teaching of Christ, walks out on God." Yes, they walk out on grace, mercy, and peace when they walk out on God and the teaching of Jesus, God's Son and they don't live in truth and real love.

Verses 8-11 (NIRV) says, "Watch out that you don't lose what we have worked for. Make sure that you get your full reward. Suppose someone thinks they know more than we do. So they don't follow Christ's teaching. Then that person doesn't belong to God. But whoever follows Christ's teaching belongs to the Father and the Son." And we need to reinforce what that means.

Verse 3 (NIRV) says, "God the Father and Jesus Christ his Son will give grace, mercy and peace. These blessings will be with us because we love the truth." We need to make sure that we get our "full reward".

Yes, this is the day for us to reinforce some very important truths. Yes, a New Year is coming. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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