Dear….

I John 2:18a “Dear children…” John exposed his warm and loving heart to all of us.  He knew the truth.  He had a deep desire for all of us to know Jesus, our Heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit–The Trinity–The true God.  He could have begun this verse with—listen everyone, but he rather opened the verse with the soft, loving words a loving, caring earthly father would have for his dear children.  We cannot read John’s letter without gaining his deep love for his Savior as well as his deep concern for those he is teaching.  How blessed we are to know John.