1 John: Converted to Christ
In 1 John, the apostle John wants to encourage you with the sure hope and relief that is yours in Christ. Yet the way he goes about it is to invite you to examine yourself and the evidence that is seen in your life. In these tests of assurance, John invites you to locate yourself between darkness and light, denial and confession, lawlessness and righteousness, hate and love, and death and life. John wants you to know the fullness of joy that is found in knowing the God of light and love who wraps us into his fellowship.
God's light is divine but it’s also deadly. How can sinners like us have assurance that we are saved when the God of light has no fellowship with darkness? John provides two tests and invites us to examine ourselves so that we might have assurance and joy of being in God's fellowship.
Scripture: 1 John 1:1-10