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3 John 1:3-4 CEB
I was overjoyed when the brothers and sisters arrived and spoke highly of your faithfulness to the truth, shown by how you live according to the truth. 
I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.
3 John 1:3-4 CEB
Remember this is a personal letter to a person named Gaius, so let's keep it personal...I wonder what John's people would report back to him about me?
Would they have found me "living according to the truth"?
Before we start beating ourselves up for not doing enough, there's no list here, no standard, just a noticing and an encouragement.
John is looking to be an encouragement, an encourager.
In a way he's reflecting God's heart...noticing and encouraging...so easy to miss the ways and places we are "living according to the truth", but our God doesn't. That is our offering, our worship. 
Living according to the truth.
What does that idea invite you into or towards today?
What does it allow you to put down or step away from?
God loves you.
His love is more than enough.
He Is Love.
He is Light.
He is Truth.
And He is inviting us to live a little more according to His Truth today...
What could that look like?
#lettersfromJohn 
#invitation 
#rememberweareBeloved 

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