Sharing God’s Word:
It is so easy to say the words “I love God”- but talk is cheap! Listening to televangelist on the radio or television
gives us a clear picture of a watered down understanding of God’s Word of truth in our world today that it’s
shameful.
Loving God involves guarding, cherishing, obeying and living His word! Jesus said in John’s Gospel: “As the
Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you: continue ye in My love” (John 15:9). Then He answers the question
of how we do that: “If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father's
commandments, and abide in His love” (John 15:10)..
We sometimes want to ask these televangelist, so-called believers, What part of “keep My commandments” do
you not understand?
If we truly love God, we will love His word, and our love well be revealed by the way in which we choose to live
in obedience to it–or as John would say, “walk in the Truth.” We cannot leave God’s Word out of our daily life
if we are going to love God and walk in the Truth. Isaiah tells us: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD” (Isa 55:8). In order for us to know His ways and to know His
thoughts we must be yielded to His Word, where they are revealed to us. To love God; to love Christ; is to love
His Word by obeying His word–which is once again what John calls “walking in Truth!”
We need to avoid taking a “cafeteria approach” “to walking in Truth!” If we love God, we won’t pick and choose
what we will obey and what we won’t.
Example, In John 6, many disciples who had been following Jesus everywhere, and who had been enamored by
His miracles, now heard Him speak some difficult things, and they walked away and did not follow Him
anymore. When this happened Jesus turned to His twelve faithful followers and asked, “will you also go away?”
(v 67). How sad, that is so often the truth about the called who just don’t like [to them] the hard things!
In 2 John 1:4, John says “I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a
commandment from the Father.” The phrase “I rejoiced greatly” is a indicative active word. When John got the
news of these believers walking in the Truth, experiencing God’s love, grace, mercy and peace, he was ecstatic!
Their walking in the Truth was a continuous present tense practice. Further, the use of the active voice tells us
that this was their daily intentional choice to do so. So John had learned that the lifestyle of these called was to
daily and consistently walk in the Truth. En, “in,” completes the picture of the called who are “fixed in or under
the arena of Truth” and therefore live under it’s influence.
There is no option to a commandment. We are commanded as God’s called to receive His Word. We are
commanded to allow it to totally influence the way we think and the way that we live!! “ I rejoiced greatly that
I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father” (2 John 1:4).
These believers that John learned about received the commandment which came from the Father exactly as it was
given: no questions asked; no “yeah but’s” even to the hard trials we are commanded to be tried on. They
obeyed exactly as God had given them the command. “Let your heart therefore be “LOYAL” to the LORD our
God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day” (1 Kings 8:61 NKJV).
Walking in the truth is where love for God begins to express itself !!☜