“By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.”

I John 4:17

Read that last phrase again: “as he is so also are we in this world.” In Christ we have an identity that is him. Not that we are whatever he is, but we are what he is in this world. We are made a holy nation, a people for him; we are living stones built up by him to be a dwelling place for him. The passage on living stones speaks to our calling, but this passage in I John on love speaks of our identity.

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