06/14/2026
What gives us confidence toward God? In today’s Epistle, Saint John tells us that our confidence rests on two things: faith in the name of God’s Son, Jesus Christ, and love for one another.
To believe in the name of Jesus means, first of all, to trust that He is our Saviour. This is, after all, what His name means: The Lord saves. The fact that we must believe in Him in order to be saved does not mean that salvation is somehow our own achievement. Quite the contrary. We are saved by the grace of God, who gave His only begotten Son to bear our sins on the cross of Calvary, winning for us the forgiveness of sins and the hope of eternal life.
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