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proving our testimony

1 John 2:28-3:10 (JDV)

1 John 2:28 So now, little children, stay in him so that when he appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
1 John 2:29 If you know that he is righteous, you know this as well: Everyone who does what is right has been born of him.
1 John 3:1 See what great care the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children — and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.
1 John 3:2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when he appears, we will be like him because we will see him as he is.
1 John 3:3 And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure.
1 John 3:4 Everyone who fails practices lawlessness; and failure is lawlessness.
1 John 3:5 You know that he was revealed so that he might take away failures, and there is no failure in him.
1 John 3:6 Everyone who stays in him does not fail; everyone who fails has not seen him or known him.
1 John 3:7 Children, let no one deceive you. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
1 John 3:8 The one who fails is of the devil, because the devil has failed from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s works.
1 John 3:9 Everyone who has been born of God does not fail, because his seed stays in him; he is not able to fail, because he has been born of God.
1 John 3:10 This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not care about his brother or sister.

proving our testimony

John agrees with James that confession of faith is not proof of faith. True children of God are going to stop habitually failing God, and start habitually loving each other. If we say that the blood of Christ has made us righteous before God, then our lives are going to produce righteous practices. Our lives are to be proof of our testimony.

LORD, we want to prove who we are by what we do.