New Testament Reading Plan: 1 John 3-5
SCRIPTURE READING
Matt 10:21-22 Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children
will rise against parents and have them put to death, 22 and you will be hated by all for my
name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. (ESV)
One of the reasons that it is important to have a correct view of salvation is because if you
think of ‘getting saved’ as something you did in the PAST, you’re going to ignore and/or miss
one of the most consistent and important admonitions which the New Testament writers made
throughout the New Testament – the admonition to endure to the end. It’s not how you start
the race that matters, its how you finish. This should give us much hope, since God wants us
to be overcomers! He’s on our side! Staying on the path isn’t complicated, it just requires that
we keep the ‘yes’ in your spirit towards Him: that we want to please Him and we want to follow
Him. If we have that, then He will empower us by His grace to stay on the path and nothing
and no-one will be able to knock us off! Take some encouragement from Jude 1: 24-25
Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the
presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our
Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
PRAYER and MEDITATION
1. Spend some time praising the Lord for the truths in the passage of Jude. Thank God
for being able to keep you from stumbling. Give God the glory He deserves, give Him
dominion over your life, give Him authority to rule your life...
2. Now ask the Lord if you are allowing Him to keep you from stumbling or if you are trying
to keep from stumbling on your own strength. Confess any self-sufficiency as sin, repent
of it and ask the Lord to empower you to walk without stumbling.
3. Pray that you will endure to the end, that you will finish the race strong, that you will
endure!
