Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

¹⁷ And whoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother has need and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?

¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue only, but in deed and in truth.

¹⁹ For by this we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before Him.

²⁰ For if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

²¹ Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, then we have boldness toward God.

²² And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His Commandments and do those things which are pleasing in His sight.

²³ This, then, is His Commandment: that we believe in the Name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as He commanded.

²⁴ For the one who keeps His Commandments dwells in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us: by that Spirit which He has given us.