1 John 2

 Some of the most ‘blessed’ experiences I’ve had is listening to another person’s story, sharing how our Triune God has changed the way they think and live. Perhaps these are eye witness miracles, seeing and hearing how His kingdom has come into a person’s life, His will being done. We all struggle with residing our mindsets to be kingdom minded, less earthly minded. Ninety percent of what I worry about never occurs. The other ten percent I can do nothing about but pray. 

“While some might contend that our core problem as humans is that we think too highly of ourselves, I’d argue that most of us live with an underlying sense of worthlessness, alienation, and disillusionment. We achieve, trying to prove our worth. We grasp for love. We clamor for meaning. Here we struggle, wounded, weary, and wandering, as the riptide quickly pulls us away from Home, out into the storming seas where we’re tossed about once again, mired in the traumatic tumult. I’ve never known anyone who hasn’t wrestled with deep questions of worth, belonging, and purpose. Even those who’ve been loved deeply and held securely eventually find their way east of Eden, wandering in the wilderness, questioning God’s goodness and their “enoughness” in God.” - Excerpt, Healing What’s Within by Chuck DeGroat

“This word fellowship is an important one in the vocabulary of a Christian. It simply means “to have in common.” As sinners, men have nothing in common with the holy God. But God in His grace sent Christ to have something in common with men. Christ took on Himself a human body and became a man. Then He went to the cross and took on that body the sins of the world (1 Peter 2:24). Because He paid the price for our sins, the way is open for God to forgive us and take us into His family. When we trust Christ, we become “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4). The term translated “partakers” in Peter’s epistle is from the same Greek root that is translated “fellowship” in 1 John 1:3.” - - Excerpt, Be Real (1 John) by Warren W. Wiersbe