What’s the combination? – Devotion for
Jacob and Aaron have been riding their bikes to school each day, and because they were unable to do the bike locks that I had for the, that meant that I rode my bike to their school each day. So, I decided to get them each a new bike lock – one that they can easily do for themselves. It is a simple combination lock, and it came preset with certain numbers that they would need to memorize to be able to unlock the chain. In telling them about the lock and combination, I explained to them why it was important for them to memorize the combination and not tell it to anyone else. “Because if you are the only one who knows the combination, you are the only one who will be able to open up the lock.” I told them that other people could come up and claim that the bike was theirs, but if they didn’t know the combination to the lock, it would be easy to tell that they weren’t telling the truth.
2 John 2:3 states, “By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.” This epistle goes on to explain that when someone claims to know God, but doesn’t keep God’s commandments, it is obvious that that person is a liar. As it states in verse 8: “The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.” The right combination to truly demonstrating that we are children of God is to live according to His word, and to live out that word through our love and forgiveness of others. Recognize that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”(Romans
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