Focus on God’s Goodness-Faithfulness

JOHN SHIRK – Today’s Focus on God’s goodness is found in First John 1:5.

“This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son, purifies us from all sin.”

Verse 9 shows us how we can step into the light if we are walking in darkness: Confess our sins. The Bible tells us that God is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

Confession is a major step forward to breaking the darkness of our sin with the light of God’s grace and truth.

The faithfulness of God to forgive confessed sin reveals the goodness of God and is a reason to give thanks in the Year of Gratitude.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com