Who has God?

“Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.”

-2 John 1:9

Many Christians claims to have God with them – and I am one of them. We attend Sunday fellowships, read the bible, pray everyday, and write devotionals, but is it just right to say that we already have God with us when we do these things? At first, I thought yes, but Apostle John has proved me wrong. I now understand that having God is not about doing these things. So how do we have God? And who has God?

With what John said in 2 John 1:9, I’ve learned we could only have God if we are obedient to the words of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. So that means only those obedient Christians have God. Attending fellowships, reading the bible, praying everyday and writing devotionals are important for our growth as Christians, but the most important thing is obeying the Lord’s commandments. This is where many of us lacked – and I admit, I am one of them. I have fallen many times and had become disobedient, but we shouldn’t take make these failures tell us who we are supposed to be.

Like what our youth pastor said, if we fall, we must stand up immediately. We shouldn’t let our failures paralyze us or even kill us, for we would really lose God if we choose to be like that. What we must do is to continue to move forward and continue on the teaching of Christ. If we sin, then forget about it. What’s done is done – we are sinful by nature after all. The only thing we can do is to forget the past and to continue in this race.

“If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.”

-2 John 1:10

Before John ended, he also gave us another warning, and that is to keep distance to those who don’t hold to the teachings of Christ. This is easy to understand as they could corrupt us and make us turn back from this Christian race we run. John is very strict in his words as he doesn’t want the believers to backslide. What we should do is to hold on tight to them so that we wouldn’t be carried away by the wickedness of this world.

Obeying the words of Christ and taking careful note of every warning given to us by the writers in the Bible is very important to keep us running in this race. We shouldn’t let ourselves lose God. God is all we need after all – nothing more and nothing less.

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