Walking In The Truth

DEVOTION 3 JOHN WALKING IN THE TRUTH 3 John 1-4 1:1 The elder, To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth. 2 Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. 3 It gave me great joy to have some brothers come and tell about your faithfulness to the truth and how you continue to walk in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. NIV It would appear it is alright to not only have our soul doing well but to also enjoy good health and the rest of life going well too. Surely that is not all there is to life and our soul or as the Greek word implies our spirit is far more important than any physical situation we find ourselves in. Yet it still is good to know that God also cares about out being, our health, and that our life is doing well. It may all be a part of being faithful to the truth. As we continue in the truth, being faithful, not being distracted by false teachers, false doctrines, false rules and regulations devised by man to exert some form of control and power over others, that we will also be doing well in the life. Perhaps, just perhaps, maybe some of the hardships we have to experience could be a result of our unfaithfulness to the truth. Is that too harsh? Is that too insensitive to the struggles of some believers? It is just a thought, not necessarily an absolute. The other idea which stands out in this statement is that some believers have spiritual children. How many of us have spiritual children that we can experience great joy seeing them walking in the truth? We are in fact someone’s spiritual child. Someone came to us and shared the Gospel message to which we decided to enter into the truth and walk as such. Is it possible that some believers have no spiritual parent? How do they here the message? When were they born again? Surely we cannot evolve into the truth, for Jesus himself said that in order for us to enter the Kingdom of God we must be born again. Therefor all of us had to hear the message from someone and response to the truth of God. The point here though is that we need to continue to walk in that truth. What good it is to decide to go to New York and walk toward California? What good is it to decide to walk in the truth but actually head in some other direction? What good is it for us to say we love God and want to walk in his truth, but be so involved in the ways of the world? What good is it for us to say we trust God for all our needs and yet spend so much time and energy storing up money for our old age? Why do we worry about anything? Why do we carry so many burdens? Are we walking in the truth? Is there someone, our spiritual parent filled with joy watching us walk in the truth, or are they a little disappointed in us? Are we overjoyed at those we have led to Christ because they are walking in the truth or are they distracted by the world? But ultimately the question for each of us, is whether or not we are walking in the truth.