Choose your channel! Which channel are we listening to today, Heavenly or earthly. We can tune in to a channel that the world cannot hear, but it takes time and focus. 1Jn 4:5,6
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 1Jn 4:4
God already sees us as victorious in Christ, because He lives in us by His Spirit. Give thanks that the Greater One is in us today.
John goes on to contrast two different groups of people on the earth and to what or whom they’re listening.
They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. 1Jn 4,5
The world listens to its own and so does the Kingdom! Only by God’s grace and mercy can the people of the world, we were all in it, begin to hear God’s voice. The initiative is with God, without Him first speaking to us we cannot hear.
This is how we recognise the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood(lying spirit). 1Jn 4:6
John tells us that the Spirit we can hear is a sure test of who we ourselves are in that realm.
Deuteronomy 28, the Chapter of Blessings and Curses over Israel begins with the statement, ‘IF you shall diligently obey the VOICE OF THE LORD… BLESSINGS! V15 However if you will not obey the VOICE OF THE LORD… CURSES’. The watershed or dividing line for Israel in their inheritance was Listening to and Obeying God’s Voice.
John said the same to the new church, whoever knows God will listen to His Voice.
God bless and keep you today.