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12/2/2010 - 3 John 1-3 What Are Those Peepers Peeping At?

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SCRIPTURE: 3 John 1-3 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. 2 Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. 3 And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure, just as he is pure.

OBSERVATION: We become what we look at. When we are constantly looking into the face of God, when we are seeing Jesus for who He really is, we become like Him. So much so that when He comes, when we can see Him fully face to face, we will be fully like Him.
This passage tells us that this expectation, of seeing Jesus, keeps us desiring to be pure. It seems that the more we put the focus of our lives on Him, the more we become like Him, that is in this instance, we take on His purity. The answer to how to stay pure in a putrified world is to focus on this point of purity--Jesus Himself.

APPLICATION: So much of this world gets so much of my attention. No wonder that, sometimes, my mind and my heart begins to be like this world's. I want to have the mind of Christ. I want to look like Him and live like Him. I know that the only way this is going to happen is if I keep my eyes on Him and never, ever take them off.

PRAYER: Lord, keep my eyes on You--all the time, without fail.

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