You can’t hate your brother and live in the Light.
Bible Reading: 1John 2:7-11
The New Commandment
7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. 9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. 10 Whoever loves+6 his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. 11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Reading Questions: Who lives in darkness? What does the darkness do to him? Who lives in the light? What does the person who lives in the light do? What doesn’t he do? What does that mean?
Journal Writing: What is an important truth from the Bible reading? Why do you need to know that truth?
Application Prayer: Write out a prayer for God’s insight and help into how you can apply the truth from the reading.
Week’s Memory Verse: John 1:3-4
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
To love others is to live in the light. To hate others is to live in darkness.