1 John 1:1-2:6.  John uses present tense verbs (denoting continuous activity) to describe the true believer, but mostly aorist tense verbs (denoting simple action in past time) to describe the spiritual impostor. The true believer keeps Christ’s commandments, and keeps on keeping them. The true believer keeps on confessing sin in order to stay in fellowship. The impostor claims that he has not sinned, and deceives himself.  He rests in his profession alone, and does not seek to govern his life by that profession. The impostor wants Christ as the propitiation, but not as the advocate. The true believer accepts Christ as both.

LORD, help us to keep our Christianity active by living the life that Jesus taught.