Once-in-a-while it is good to revisit our foundation. It is good to build altars where we can return and worship and remember. The apostle John helps us in this process.

In I John 3:5 and 8, John reminds us of just who Jesus is. John says Jesus “appeared in order to take away sins…to destroy the works of the devil.” Who is He? He is the One who meets us at the deepest needs of our lives and destroys the destroyer there.

In I John 3:1 John reminds us of how much we are loved by God and what that love means. He says, ‘See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God.” Who are we? We are children of the One true God who destroys the destroyer.

In I John 3:7-8 John reminds us that we can live above the destructive forces of the enemy of our souls by practicing a righteous life in Christ. We don’t have to practice unrighteousness. The One who is righteous lives in us and brings out that kind of life in us.

In I John 3:2-3 John reminds us that we are headed somewhere, and that somewhere is a place where we will be like Jesus because we will see Him just as he is. This approaching date and place is so profound to us that John calls it hope. This hope is so important to who we are and how we live that it becomes a steadying compass that ever reminds us that we’re not home yet, but that the hope we have in Jesus is leading us there.

We are on a magnificent journey of all journeys. The grace of God meets us at every turn, and and at every turn we know the future will be better than the past because it is leading us to a day and time when we will see Jesus face to face. On that day I John 3:2 tells us that “we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.”

Hope you are enjoying the ride.