The Daily Fountain Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 2 December 2025 – Hope That Provokes Purity
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TOPIC: Hope That Provokes Purity
READ: 1 John 3:1-3 (NKJV)
- Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
- Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
- And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
THE MESSAGE:
Many persons have often wondered the justification for suicide. A particular service provider has “Life is Beautiful’ as its advertisement slogan. The question always is: Why will someone want to kill him/herself in the midst of this beauty? My response has always been that when hope is lost, anything negative is possible. No matter how difficult life may be, a man of hope will get going.
Our passage today speaks of the manner of love that God has for His children, and the expectation of being like Christ when we shall behold Him at the end of time. The idea of be becoming like Christ fascinated John so much that he was ready to pay any price to actualize it. This was the ground of his hope; it was not temporal but completely eternal. In the hope of being like Christ, he was willing to pursue the purity required. The evidence of our sincere desire to becoming like Christ is seen in our commitment to be pure. Until we begin to pursue purity, our profession of the Second Coming, the Millennial Reign and the Reunion with Christ is nothing but pretense.
PRAYER: Lord, purify me until I become like You, Amen!
