When your faith feels weak and you're not sure you'll make it through whatever season you're in, the Bible carries a specific and personal promise: God will make you stand. Not because you become stronger or because you find better spiritual disciplines but because He is able to make you stand and He will do it.

If anyone in Jesus’s day was famous among their peers for righteousness, it was the Pharisees. Their whole brand (so to speak) was that they were the ones who did the right things.

Meekness is one of the most misunderstood words in the Bible. It does not mean weakness and instead means power under control, submitted to God. Jesus used this word to describe Himself, which tells us everything about what it actually looks like in a person's life.

Not everything that sounds spiritual is from God. John gives us a direct, practical test in 1 John 4: the Spirit of God will always confess that Jesus Christ — fully God, fully human — has come in the flesh. Any message that falls short of or contradicts that is not from God, no matter how convincing it sounds.

Being called a child of God is not a casual religious phrase. According to 1 John 3, it describes a real relationship — one rooted in God's lavish love, marked by a transformation already underway, and aimed at a final completion when we see Jesus face to face. We are His children now, and that changes how we live today.

To walk as Jesus walked is not primarily about following rules. It is about a whole life transformed — attitudes, emotions, instincts, and actions — until love for God and love for other people becomes the thing that guides every step. John shows us in 1 John 2 how that transformation happens, and it begins with understanding what Jesus did for us.

God doesn't just dwell in light — He is light. Walking with Him means moving toward His purity and away from darkness, not as a burden, but because His light is what our souls are already longing for. John shows us in 1 John 1 that this is where fellowship is found, where joy is completed, and where our sin is both honestly named and fully forgiven.

This is a comforting thought when we find ourselves suffering or in other ways opposed by the devil. We know that suffering is caused by the sin in the world—not our sin, but the sin in the world.

When we pray “your will be done” as Jesus teaches us to pray, that’s what we’re asking for. We’re asking God to make His will be done on earth instead of any other will, including our own.

In Daniel 2, God gives the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, a dream in which God reveals that even the greatest Kingdoms on the earth are destined to come to an end.

When Jesus teaches His people to pray (Matthew 6, Luke 11) He begins by introducing God as Father. Jesus is teaching us that we should approach God in a particular way–that He is our Father.